Quotes About Legacy

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.

Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.

In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I've had is winning, and that's ridiculous.

Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or hip-hop has ever done it any bigger than him. You know what I mean? He's the man.

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.

Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description