Quotes about Legacy
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
- Cicero
Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
- Samuel Johnson
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.
- Tina Fey
The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
- Virginia Woolf
A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.
- Wendell Berry
The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
- Victor Hugo
Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.
- William Wordsworth
Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.
- JRR Tolkien
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
- Elbert Hubbard