Quotes About Legacy

[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.

History! Read it and weep!

If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.

I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

You can't kill history. You can't shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it's going to die, it has to die on its own

History is the seed bed of the future.

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.

History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.

I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.

Each of us is born with a history already in place

I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history.

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.

I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word 'AIDS' when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all.

I do consider myself part of black history.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past!

If somebody tells you 'History will never forgive you,' just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won't be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!

I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise.

I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry.

Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.