Quotes About Legacy

The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.

I am the man of the century. No one will ever forget me.

Pau is one of the best big men in the game. I mean, Pau Gasol is going to be in the Hall of Fame.

If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

A great man is one sentence.

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

Men die but an idea does not.

There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.

The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and silently with them on stage.

Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

All men die. Only a few ever live.

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.

The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we came from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man

In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

A man stays alive as long as he is remembered. He is killed only by forgetfulness.

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.