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Quotes About Legacy

The greatest gift this generation can give future generations is a HEALTHY PLANET.
~ Unknown
Juan de Grijalva, coincidentally the first European to smoke on continental American soil
~ Unknown
If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!
~ Iain M. Banks
I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and amongst those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.
~ Iain M. Banks
Perhaps in another few thousand years, the aliens who take over our planet will note the quaint and weird sport of Association Football, an ancient forerunner to whatever becomes their modern foot-and-ball game. Perhaps it will be played with the heads of vanquished humans.
~ Ian Bogost
But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone "This Man Died from Living Too Much."
~ Ian Fleming
But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'.
~ Ian Fleming
But as a boomer with Beatles music in my DNA and Lennon songs in my head, every so often I stop and think about the music he might have created over the last 35 years. Then I think of that sad, twisted prick in prison and wish that every morning you could queue up outside his cell, and when he stuck his head out to get his breakfast, you could step up and punch him in the face. I'd wait in that line. But, I wouldn't shoot him, because violence doesn't solve anything. Though
~ Ian Gurvitz
I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.
~ Ian Hislop
I was sure that on my gravestone, my epitaph would read, 'He came. He saw. And then he came again.
~ Ian Kerner
Great men are not made by propaganda, but grow out of their actions
~ Ian Kershaw
Miss Austen has made herself known without making herself public.
~ Unknown
Names were the nails of history. Things were, had been, would be because they had names to guide them through time. Without a name he had no time-boundedness. Therefore he must have a name. But everything was already named, and all names were assigned. He would have to steal one.
~ Unknown
Grandfather was a tree
~ Unknown
Legends should stay legends otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.
~ Unknown
Somos tan egocéntricos que nos creemos la medida de todas las cosas, pero el tiempo nos arrebatará todo lo que somos, todo lo que tenemos, todo lo que llegaremos a construir.
~ Unknown
Here's tae us,' Cameron said. 'Wha's like us?' Collins added. 'Might just leave it there,' Rebus said, unwilling to finish the toast. But the words echoed in his head anyway. Gey few, and they're aw deid …
~ Ian Rankin
The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.
~ Ibrahim Babangida
The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
~ Ice Cube
I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
~ Ice Cube
No longer a jewel thief; once again my mama's son.
~ Unknown
I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita ' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
~ Idina Menzel
EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.
~ Idries Shah
Death If he is a good man, death will be a release; If he is a bad one, it will release others from him.
~ Idries Shah