Quotes About Legacy

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

The winner of this tournament doesn't just win a major. He become a part of the history of the game.

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

I won't make a mark on history. I have some importance in the time we live in, but that's all.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.