Why should I care about posterity? What`s posterity ever done for me?
- Groucho MarxI do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don`t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
- Orson WellesI thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.
- Twyla TharpI suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.
- Henry R. LuceLeibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
- Robert TroutIt is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
- Robert StevensonMichelangelo told (his biographer) Condivi what to write, ... Michelangelo was aware of posterity, so he wanted people to remember him as a self-created genius.
- Ross KingA blog is an ideal way of doing a brain dump on a daily basis of what is going on right now, the weird, the exciting and the awful things ... I also wanted to have a record for myself, just for posterity.
- David AdamsArt is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
- Len WeinI would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
- Sam HoustonAfter being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
- Abdul RazzaqA poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
- Abu MorshedWhen we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
- Adrienne HerronWhy should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
- Alain CayzacSince it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
- Alba PerezPosterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
- Alexis RedmondWho could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
- Alysia WatersIs it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?
- Andre BishopThe writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
- Andrew LaddIn the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac you were the First Brigade! In the Second Corps of this Army, you are the First Brigade! You are the First Brigade in the affections of your general, and I hope by your future deeds and bearing you will be handed down the posterity as the First Brigade in this our Second War of Independence. Farewell!
- Andy SpearsLet our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
- Anna HoppeMy advice for posterity? Live by principle - that`s all.
- Barbara Kafka"The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn." --George Washington
- George WashingtonAvoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic
- George WashingtonPosterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
- John Quincy AdamsPeople will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors
- Edmund BurkePosterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else
- Heywood C. BrounAfter all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style
- Isaac DisraeliIt is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
- Joseph AddisonI hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
- Rene DescartesNever forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
- Robert G. MenziesThe nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England
- W. R. Inge