Quotes About Legacy

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

Jason Witten will go down as one of the best tight ends in history.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma.

I don't worry about long-term history. I won't be around to read it.

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

If you look into the history of fashion, you'll discover that Gernreich was the leading name for years and the leading fashion designer both here in the United States and internationally.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.