Monumental Achievements Quotes

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I'ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that's the perfect name.

I think of legacy: I want plaques on the wall. I want a farm for my dad. I want an orphanage, preferably two, named after my mother. I want to positively and tangibly help the lives of millions of people and die a legend.

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

Mark my words, history will remember President Zardari as one of the greatest and most successful leaders the country has ever seen.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.

I do a lot of work that's permanent. The drawings, the sculptures, they're permanent.

When the Egyptians were building the pyramids or the Romans were building roads, or you had the westward push with the railroads, I don't think that the guys on the ground were spending a lot of time thinking, 'Hey, hundreds or thousands of years from now they will look back at the brick I have just laid down here and say that I changed the world!'

I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too.

This above all makes history useful and desirable: it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

The same aspirations to celebrate and uplift the spirit that drove the Egyptians to build the pyramids are still driving us. The things we're doing differ only in magnitude.

You can't rewrite the history books; you can't eliminate the impact of my work and my characters.

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity in their debt have been small States—Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

No people ever sees clearly those steps in its own progress, those events in its own life, which future generations will count glorious.

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.

I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest.

Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral..

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.

All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.