Quotes About Legacy

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.

Lost in Space brings back a lot of memories for people, and I think that any time youre involved in something that has such a long-lasting appeal, you feel very blessed by that.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right, they can throw my body into the volcano.

Omg. My long time teammate on the Nadadores and team USA, Fran Crippen, passed away today while racing in Dubai.

I'd much rather go out having America shocked than having America go, 'Eh, it was his time.'

The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.

The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.