Quotes About Legacy

He is the man who has been brought on to replace Pavel Nedved. The irreplaceable Pavel Nedved.

When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

What man is, only history tells.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I'm in all of them.

I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered- as a storyteller. A good storyteller.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men, whose superiors it is our happiness to believe are not found on the executive calendar of any country.

I will not be on this planet. I may come back in another form, and you know, I'll come back as a white man.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

When I die, nobody cry at my funeral, in fact let's all have a party; I've lived the life of ten men. I lived all my dreams and more.

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.

I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.

How does a man know when he's taking the last steps of his life?

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.