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Quotes About Legacy

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
~ Gabe Newell
The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.
~ Leon Redbone
If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.
~ Xavi
Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.
~ Lee Patrick Mastelotto
I'm so very proud to be a part of Playmate history. It's such an honour to be one of 12 girls selected each year to represent Playboy all over the world!
~ Lisa Dergan Podsednik
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
~ Dorothy Salisbury Davis
If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
~ Harri Holkeri
Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.
~ Vladimir Voinovich
If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.
~ Heather Brewer
No generation can escape history.
~ George H. W. Bush
History: a collection of epitaphs.
~ Elbert Hubbard
During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.
~ Michael Winner
The past has always been the handmaid of authority.
~ J. H. Plumb
History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.
~ Matt Smith
Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.
~ Ronald Reagan
Our past has gone into history.
~ William McKinley
History is as Old as My Grandfather
~ Adolf Hitler
A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.
~ Laila Lalami
Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone
~ Miguel Najdorf
The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.
~ Abram Joseph Ryan
History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.
~ Terry Pratchett
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.
~ James Martineau