Quotes About Legacy

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.

Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.

a man who builds a house never really dies.

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man's field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.

I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.

Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.

The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.

All men start life as a road-user and only few continue it as a road-creator!

Man is nothing, absolutely nothing till he achieves physical immortality. God should be prosecuted on the charges of making man mortal!

The tattoo of the History is permanent; once a nation or a man is marked by this tattoo, erasing is impossible.

Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.

What am I most proud of? That, as a man, I've made my mom proud. Not just in basketball, but away from the court, too.

Dead men never pick up their trophies.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.