Quotes About Legacy

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.

Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.

A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]

Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.

I left my mark on that man.

Men cannot live forever But they must die forever.

Coolidge's stat was so low; he's ranked in the bottom half of presidents. What I found when I encountered this man was the leader I might like to see today.

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

Scott Wilson (Hershel) is a god among men

The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

When the old men fight, the young people die.