Quotes About Legacy

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. Probably less.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.

If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.

Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno.

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.

Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

If a man knew how to live he would never die.

My father was a very difficult man.