Quotes About Legacy

Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Let us consider the nature of true greatness in men. The people who can catch hold of men's minds and feelings and inspire them to do things bigger than themselves are the people who are remembered in history. . . . those who stir feelings and imagination and make men struggle toward perfection.

Oh, I wish Daddy could be here right now! You can't ever lose your talent, he used to tell me. Once you're born with talent, you have it all your life long. You can lose money, youth and looks, but——You want to see the pictures?" In

One of my illustrious predecessors.

I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is a tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

History is more or less bunk.

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today.

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.

How soon will Ford blow up?" Nobody knows how many thousand times it has been asked since. It is asked only because of the failure to grasp that a principle rather than an individual is at work, and the principle is so simple that it seems mysterious.

behind dim empires vaguer ghosts of empire loom.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

The notion that we can dismiss the views of all previous thinkers surely leaves no basis for the hope that our own work will prove of any value to others.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

To the younger generation," writes Carl Schurz, "Abraham Lincoln has already become a half mythical figure, which, in the haze of historic distance, grows to more and more heroic proportions, but also loses in distinctness of outline and figure.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

History is the memory of States.

postcolonial" countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial

Konrad Adenauer became Chancellor of the new Federal Republic of Germany at the age of seventy-three, an age by which Bismarck's career was nearing its end.

Upon learning of Cardinal Richelieu's death, Pope Urban VIII is alleged to have said, "If there is a God, the Cardinal de Richelieu will have much to answer for. If not… well, he had a successful life.

For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.