Quotes About Legacy

I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.

The dinosaurs are remember only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity?

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

And while we destroy / Our children will grow / Not missing the things they'll never know / A crime against them / Against you and me / A crime against all humanity

What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity.

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

History is the self-consciousness of humanity.

You frantically want to make a mark on the history of humanity? You, King of the Fools! In the very distant future, there shall be no history; there shall remain not even a single trace of anything!

Few men want to achieve greatness for humanity, thought Jeffrey. What better person is there to work for?

Everybody's trying to leave their mark on the world. That's why there's graffiti and babies.

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!'

About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard - after that he went downhill very quickly.

After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

My grandfather invented the cold air balloon... But it never really took off.

The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.

The boat was so old; it must have been launched when Long John Silver had two legs and an egg on his shoulder.

All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

Most of my relatives are police marksmen, apart from my grandad who was a bank robber. He died recently, surrounded by his family.

Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!