Sarah Vaughan Quotes

I want to be remembered.

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.

I always felt that one needs to be remembered long after one has gone.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

I want to go down in history.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth the reading, or do things worth the writing.

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.

I want people talking about me when I'm gone.

I don't actually think about going down in history.

I would just like to be remembered.

To have a statue of you up 100 years from now at the Superdome, I think that's amazing.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

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

I don't think much about whether fans will remember me.

History will treat me right.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Some day I will be better remembered.

As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me.