Quotes About Legacy

We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.

The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs.

I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left the vivid air signed with their honor.

To be the highest-paid running back ever is quite an honor.

It's a masterpiece [The Exorcist]. This is an honor. I know you may not think so, but it really is. How many movies in our lifetime? This is an honor.

An opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose, the dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.

When I first came out with Blue, everyone compared me to Patsy Cline, which is the biggest honor, 'cause I've always looked up to her.

It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.

You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.

And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.

I wanted to honor [George Gershwin]. He's a great American songwriter.

Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.

I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

We put on our best clothes and die like heroes.

These were honoured in their generations and were the glory of the times.