Arlen Specter Quotes

Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

I'm never looking at life in terms of legacy.

Statesmen are judged by history beyond contemporary debates.

Nobody can know what their legacy is going to be, you know?

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

I've been being asked about my legacy since I was about 25 years old. I'm not sure you can have a legacy when you're 25 years old. Even 37. I'd like to have to be, like, 70 to have a legacy. I'm not even 100 percent sure what the word even means.

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

When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.

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

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

It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.

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

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

Legacy? I'm a worker in the factory; all we care about is today! A legacy... what a bunch of baloney.

I don't feel like I have a legacy.

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

I care about my legacy.

I want to make a serious legacy.

Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.

I don't give a tinker's damn for posterity.