Quotes About Legacy

Make history or be a part of it.

I will play to create history and enjoy myself and give pleasure to the fans.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

History doesn't have a curfew.

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

History is written by those who hang heroes.

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

In the fight against the communism in history, only Codreanu didn't give up. He was a new kind of Jesus

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

Live in the moment. Moments make history.

I would go back to the past and watch one of the early Beatles shows, because they were such a massive part of cultural history. As a younger person, you feel you missed out on that.