Quotes About Legacy

Arnold's place in history will be as the man who took golf from being a game for the few to a sport for the masses. He was the catalyst who made that happen.

When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers.

When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.

In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.

Thoughts and prayers go out to Michael Weiner's family. A great leader and man. Going to be missed.

Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.

What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every century, and indeed at the end of every year, forever and ever.

My papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me.

I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.

With [Fred] Zinnemann I did A Man For All Seasons. He was my screen godfather. I'm happy to say he was.

Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time.

Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.

The wisest men are wise to the full in death.