Quotes About Legacy

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

When the real history of the world is written, it will show god's dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.

The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.

The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

Nelson Mandela and myself had a wonderful relationship - he was a special man and will be missed.

Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.

Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

When good men die their goodness does not perish.

I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.