Quotes About Legacy

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

Much more than memoir; it's history.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.

When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.

The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their lives to accomplish. They made a difference!

There's always an asterisk behind somebody's name who hasn't won the Super Bowl. There shouldn't be, but that's kind of the way history works.

The National Football league is on the wrong side of history.

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

History is sympathetic to its authors.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

I feel like D.C. is one of the places in America that really holds on to history. The monuments inspire me, especially at night.

History is a bucket of ashes.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star.

History is not what happened but what is written down

History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.

It was my dream as a kid was to make history.

It feels good to be a part of history.