40 Posterity Quotes for You to Enjoy

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes. Len Wein

Art Eyes Mistakes Our Out Posterity Only Point Always Beholder Right

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it. Lysander Spooner

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

Damn Posterity Give Tinker

Who 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? Marguerite Gardiner

Respect Monuments Posterity Vanity Could Mortals Thus Names Look Without Testimonial Up Reflecting Very Offering Persons Ignorant Who Whose

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books. Mike Stoller

Time Great Writing Thought Assumed Cole Porter Everyone Books Berlin Posterity Temporary Never Had Songs Written Like Supposed Period Because Comic Comic Books Were Been Hammerstein Rodgers Standards Porter Things

Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now. Octavio Paz

Time Speed Our Distant Once Ancestors Neighbor Posterity Archaic Picasso He Him Without Permits Go Going Happen Happening Places Centuries Next-Door Neighbor Now Letting Letting Go Belong Here Two

American society was economically ill-run in the 1980s. Our society has been on a consumption binge. If the American people had a town meeting and said, 'What do we care about posterity? Posterity hasn't done anything for us; we're going to whoop it up now,' that is a rational judgment. But nobody ever did that. Paul Samuelson

People Care Judgment Society Meeting Our Has-Been Posterity About Rational Had Consumption Nobody Economically Town Said Been Up American Did Done Going Anything American People Us American Society Now Binge Ever

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one's conversion, worthiness, and preparation. Russell M. Nelson

I 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 Tharp

The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy. Virginia Postrel

Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all. William J. Clinton

The only thing I do for posterity is plant trees. Roddy Llewellyn

Plant Trees Posterity Only The Only Thing Thing

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