Quotes About Legacy

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

Celebrity? Oh man, I just thought it was a ride that was going to last forever and when it stopped, I didn't know what to do.

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

Life must go on, Though good men die.

Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.

There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave all his children a feast; But they all ate so much, and their conduct was such, That it killed that Old Man of the East.

John Redwood is a young man but, let's face it, so was Margaret Thatcher in 1975.

Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.

For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.

Lincoln, the Man of the People

I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.

And Burns--though brief the race he ran, Though rough and dark the paths he trod, Lived--died--in form and soul a man, The image of his God.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

Even such is man, whose glory lendsHis life a blaze or two, and ends.