Cass McCombs Quotes

… 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.

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

The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.

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

I think - you know, I'm a guy that - I don't live on the earth just to walk it. I live on here to make a difference.

Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

You are what you leave behind.

I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Speak to the generations of the future.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

I am now playing for 100 years hence.

Your legacy makes a difference.

You don't get to choose what your legacy is.

When I leave this world, I don't want to leave just having a well-known name but having made a difference.

I want to create a different kind of legacy.

We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.

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.

To me, a life that doesn't change things and touch people's lives is pretty meaningless.

Leaving a legacy behind is huge.

My father's legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years.

So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20).