Quotes About Legacy

I need something bigger than myself. And the only thing that can be would be a child. Someone who would help me live even more selflessly.

BELINDA: People say you shouldn't speak ill of the dead. I say tell the truth. The dead will know what God will tell them. So start talking.

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

I've got a long history of suicid in my family; the good news is it skips a generation, so, if I'm lucky, my kids will kill themselves.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Barca is nothing but a small part of Real Madrid's history

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

Your birth may be common, But death must be history.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.