Quotes About Legacy

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.

It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.