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Quotes About Legacy

We honor the dead best by treating the living well.
~ Jennifer Granholm
Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.
~ Neil Peart
If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
~ George Will
It's an honor to be compared with Terry Bradshaw. If I could do half of what he did, I'd be very happy.
~ Ben Roethlisberger
When a warrior goes down, you pick up his shield and go play in honor of him.
~ Chip Kelly
It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.
~ Johnny Depp
The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation And I did it with honor.
~ Hosni Mubarak
The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.
~ Daryl Hall
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
~ Plato
You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Let the world honor you, my Huntress. Live forever in the stars.
~ Rick Riordan
I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.
~ Mike Portnoy
I want my career to be judged by what I did on the field. I appreciate the honors.
~ Jim Abbott
To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.
~ Nelson Mandela
To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.
~ Leon Askin
It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind
~ Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
I am very proud to be featured, especially when you consider the outstanding champions who have had this honor. It is great company to be in.
~ Julius Erving
What the Vatican did will be indelibly and eternally engraved in our hearts. Priests and even high prelates did things that will forever be an honor to Catholicism.
~ Israel Zolli
God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.
~ Norah Jones
We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary.
~ Barack Obama
I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.
~ Carl Schurz
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.
~ W. H. Auden
The cross is not only imposed upon the saints as their burden, but bequeathed unto them as their legacy. It is given unto them as an honor and privilege.
~ Richard Alleine