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Quotes About Legacy

The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.
~ Peter Bogdanovich
Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.
~ Philip Pullman
If I had a brick for every time I've repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I'd probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them.
~ Ray Kroc
At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.
~ Reba McEntire
Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?
~ Robert Genn
Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.
~ Robert Jordan
I'll be dead by the time I'm forty.
~ Rod Stewart
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.
~ Samuel Johnson
Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame
~ Samuel Johnson
I feel as a brand I'm here to be around for a long time.
~ Serena Williams
Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
~ Shania Twain
I try not to think about legacy because it is all ­folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten.
~ Steve Martin
If it's time to go, remember what you're leaving. Remember the best.
~ Steven Moffat
One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.
~ Storm Jameson
How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
~ Tavis Smiley
The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
~ Thomas Carlyle
After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.
~ Tom Watson
We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.
~ Walter Cronkite
If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.
~ Wilford Woodruff
The centuries will burn rich loads With which we groaned, Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids, While songs are crooned: But they will not dream of us poor lads, Left in the ground.
~ Wilfred Owen
The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.
~ Eliot Engel
Time will unveil all things to posterity.
~ Euripides
A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof.
~ Florence King