Quotes About Legacy

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now.

When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.

Each day is a little bit of history

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.

The first rough draft of history.

Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

I'm not part of the history, I am the history.

A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

History is written by the victors.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

We'll have a baby who stutters repeatedly We'll name him history