Quotes About Legacy

If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain.

If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.

I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

Most people forget that Danny Biasone was the Wilbur Wright of basketball. Because he invented the 24-second clock, the game took off. Yet he was a man who never played the game.

They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie.

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed...

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name.

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

All men know their children mean more than life.

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

Valar Morghulis - All men must die.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency