Quotes About Legacy

I think Barack Obama is an amazing man and president. His legacy is ongoing.

Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.

Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.

The most important thing is just to be recognised as a legend, like the people call me. To have that title attached to your name, you've got to be a bad man. It's an honour to have that role.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape the man that I am today. My debt to him is invaluable.

There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.

It is for all Men that come into the World once to Die, and after Death the Judgment; and since Death is a Debt that all of us must pay, it is but a matter of small moment what way it be done.

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.

Terribly sad news about Stuart Cable, such a lovely, warm, funny, talented man.

The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings.

Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry.

I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.

Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left.

Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.

I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute.

As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.