Quotes About Legacy

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

I know that there are a lot of great women that have gone before me, so it's important to acknowledge them.

The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.

My dad always said to me that with fame comes great responsibility, which has always stuck with me, even though I think he stole that line from Spiderman.

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

The great companies get built by their founders

I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.

For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.

I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a great team, one of the greatest ever organized.