Quotes About Legacy

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.

Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

A sense of beauty is every hindrance to a soldier; yet there would be no soldiers - or none such soldier had not men dead and living cherished and handed on the sacred fire.

Nas is one of the Greatest Ever. Never has and never will need a ghostwriter. That man's pen and legacy is without question.

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.

What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.

Paul Harvey was the most listened to man in the history of radio. ... There is no one who will ever come close to him.

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.