Quotes About Legacy

Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history.

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

Harlem is filled with moments of history.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?

Our history is not our destiny.

History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.

History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.