Quotes about Legacy
One of our nation's greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
— Jimmy Carter
I always judge people who spend a lot of time in public office say they care about things, if the day after they leave, they no longer talk about them, then I don't think they cared much about them.
— Joe Biden
This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time.
— Wendell Berry
Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
— Carol Burnett
A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.
— Maya Angelou
I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
— Lucille Ball
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what proceeds it.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
Chance planned to live in such a way that his son would grow up to be a strong, wise, honorable, faithful man. And the only way Chance knew to teach that was to be such a man himself.
— Mary Connealy
I and they, my chosen friends, my fellow-builders, shall write the firsts chapter in the new history of man
— Ayn Rand
You know, I'm not any kind of a great man. I couldn't have built that railroad. If it goes, I won't be able to bring it back. I'll have to go with it. . . .
— Ayn Rand
You know, I'm not any kind of a great man. I couldn't have built that railroad. If it goes, I won't be able to bring it back. I'll have to go with it. . . .
— Ayn Rand
You know, I'm not any kind of a great man. I couldn't have built that railroad. If it goes, I won't be able to bring it back. I'll have to go with it. . . .
— Ayn Rand