Quotes About Legacy

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness;And from that full meridian of my glory,I haste now to my setting: I shall fallLike a bright exhalation in the evening,And no man see me more.

The choice and master spirits of this age.

Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy...

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

My dad was good with actions.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

We'd thought we were making a TV show; instead, we had flown boldly into legend.

tibi terra levis. "May the earth lie light upon thee,

You are a memory too strong to leave this world...

How did the world ever manage without me before I was born?' he wondered. 'Didn't they feel something was missing?

Sometime before the year 2025, America will pass through a great gate in history, commensurate with the American Revolution, Civil War, and twin emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II.

What these modern myths illustrate is this: Your generation isn't like the generation that shaped you, but it has much in common with the generation that shaped the generation that shaped you. Archetypes do not create archetypes like themselves; instead, they create the shadows of archetypes like themselves.

The farther backward you look, the farther forward you are likely to see," Winston Churchill once said.

I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.

Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives.

But, sad to say, Jefferson is not the only American statesman who has spoken high-sounding words in favour of freedom, and then left his own children to die slaves.

WITH the growing population of slaves in the Southern States of America, there is a fearful increase of half whites, most of whose fathers are slaveowners and their mothers slaves.

The problem with this way of thinking is that authentic faith cannot be inherited.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, a grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Where the statue stoodOf Newton with his prism and silent face,The marble index of a mind foreverVoyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.

There isOne great society alone on earth:The noble Living and the noble Dead.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.