Quotes About Legacy

To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.

Al Davis treated me like son. That man helped me become the man I am today.

There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man who loved his race.

The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father.

To be a man, a boy must see a man

Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies.

I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!