Quotes About Legacy

He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body...unfortunately he had run out of room.

A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.

Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

A wise man who was always helpful to me: Mr (Enzo) Ferrari. He always supported me.

In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

I hope to be judged as good a man as my father. Before I hear those words "well done" from my Heavenly Father, I hope to first hear them from my mortal father.

Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?

Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors.

Man must endure his going hence.

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

Dead men always have the last laugh. They win. They're dead. You can't hurt their feelings anymore.

Look well on this, my son," said the green-skinned man, "for one day I shall rule a clockwork kingdom of such beings, and you shall be its prince.

The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to be a doctor. GAWD, parents haven't changed much.