Quotes About Legacy

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

Men make history. History does not make the man.

Men make history, not the other way around.

If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.

Remember the coffin where men All must to dust be returning.

John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.

When a man dies he kicks the dust.

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.

Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.

A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'

You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins." "I'm going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.

It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.