Quotes About Legacy

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

Hopefully one day I can be up there with Peyton in terms of history.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

You have to be a little bad to make history.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

The whole past is the procession of the present.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

Some of the most famous people in history never got a dinner!

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.

I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.

People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.