Quotes About Legacy

The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.

The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all — he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

As a younger person I think I thought of myself as a Tony [from The Best Man], struggling with the legacy of my famous parents.

Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

[Muhammad] Ali had [Jo] Frazier , that man had the joker, Coke had Pepsi and [Donald] Trump had [Barack] Obama, or 16 primary opponents or the entire political establishment.

Men, who achieve much, die as do those who achieve nothing.

For a man, once you've sired your pups, you're done.

Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.

My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.

There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak bastards we're surrounded with.

Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

[Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate man about sport and life will always stay with me.

Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?

But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

My father when walked into a room, you could tell that everybody loved him. They really did. He was quite a man. My mother was more into the show biz atmosphere than he was.