Quotes About Legacy

The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by time.

No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.

Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people.

Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.

I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me.

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.

Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.

When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.

For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.

Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.

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