Quotes About Legacy

Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

History is littered with dead good men

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.

No man knows my history.

University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.

How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?

We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day.

President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.

I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.

What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?