Quotes About Legacy

History is a great dust heap.

If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

History is the third parent.

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

History passes the final judgment

Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.

Our history is an aggregate of last moments

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.

I am a fan of history.

I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.

Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest threats.

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

When history calls, history calls.

Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

Only the vanquished remember history.

We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.

There is no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say: 'Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world.'

Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.