Quotes About Legacy

The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

Let's give the historians something to write about

There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.

George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

Some people make headlines while others make history.

The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will.

There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.

History isn't through with me yet.

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.

History never really says goodbye. History says, see you later.

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.