Quotes About Legacy

History is written by the winners.

Happy is the nation without a history.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there.

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.

There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.

When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things

What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.

The longest suicide note in history.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.

As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own.

I became the first ever Euro-continental champion in WWF history. Well, besides D-Lo Brown, but he doesn't count.

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

Be as proud of your race today as our as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.