Francis Bacon Quotes

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

It sure is a nice feeling to know that people will remember you after you're gone, that you'll manage to be a little bit of history.

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

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

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

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

The President of today is the postage stamp of tomorrow.

We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us.

… 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.

I'd wish for my work to be remembered rather than myself.

Oh, you know, your legacy's all you're gonna be remembered by.

How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that's what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.

In the end, Kane will be remembered as a character I played on TV. In that respect, I want people to remember me for more than that.

I want to be remembered.

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

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

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

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

I want to go down in history.

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.