Quotes about Legacy
A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.
— Thomas Watson
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
— Harry S. Truman
One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
— Ronald Reagan
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
— St. Jerome
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
— Washington Irving
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
— Bob Marley
England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
— Victor Hugo
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
— Victor Hugo
Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
— Victor Hugo
Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of the ages.
— Victor Hugo
It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.
— Victor Hugo