Quotes About Legacy

Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.

I'll leave here with my head held high and with confidence that history will judge my time here.

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history.

Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.

It's a special club. It's got history. When I slip on the Manchester United shirt, it's like I'm wearing its past. So you have to sacrifice yourself for this club.

We cannot escape history.

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.

Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it.

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

that's me. ancient history." [Poseidon to Paul]

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.

My aim is to go down in history as one of the best.

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.