David O. Stewart Quotes

The President of today is the postage stamp of tomorrow.

… the whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

The test of greatness is the page of history.

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

History passes the final judgment.

You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

Fidel is really a special case. He's a personality of history.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.

It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.

Either you make history or you will be history.

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

History is a very powerful force.

I have labored to make the record of the great men of my time.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep shadows that endured for centuries.

People should really think about when they see President Donald Trump, they should think about all the places that he was and could be. All the things he could be doing. The political motivators for many typical politicians of which he's not one, Mercy, money, power, prestige, fame, he had all of that.