Quotes About Legacy

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.

As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a man of strong character, deep conviction, unforgettable charm, and wonderful wit.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!

There is not, and never was, a greater man than Emil Zatopek.

No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.

The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.