Charlie Pierce Quotes

Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

Statesmen are judged by history beyond contemporary debates.

We all leave unfinished work; we cannot complete it; those who come after us take it up and conform it to their will

A Politician is never remembered for how he started. He is remembered for how he finished.

That's why we're here: to leave a legacy that'll be remembered long after we're done. And what a great start to my legacy, man, being the first UFC flyweight champion.

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told Mr. Coolidge when he dedicated this monument that this rock is being carved with a monument that will outlive our government.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things. I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered forever. - Yet how few of those who have lived, even of those who have accomplished far more than I have, linger on in world memory for even a single century after death

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

True leadership—the sort of visionary leadership that Mandela is famed for—leaves a legacy that outlasts the originators mortal flesh.

The times demand not a man bearing promises of new things, but a man who can finish the things begun...

Fifty years from now there will be statues of me all over Germany

No generation can escape history.

It is not necessary to live. But to leave our names beyond that point. That is necessary.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

I think, before Obama, there was a glass ceiling. That's a big change. As a president, I think he was the best. I felt like I could trust his judgment, and he'd take a measured, empathetic approach. I don't see there ever being another Barack Obama.

Barack Obama is probably the coolest president this country will ever have.

I think that five, 10, 50 years down the road, we'll be honoring President Barack Obama for ending two wars, stopping the economic hemorrhage and, yes, reducing the number of uninsured. And the polls won't matter.

Olivia Chow is no Jack Layton.

I didn't want to just be remembered for 'War Horse.'

I'm glad I was part of history, here long after I'm gone.

President Kennedy's life and death represent both what is possible in America, and all of the work left undone.