Quotes About Legacy

Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead

Love doesn't die; the men and women do.

We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.

A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others.

I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.

Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.

I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.