(108 quotes found)
“What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.”
Lord Byron
“Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.”
John Adams
“Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.”
Julius Sterling Morton
“Time will reveal everything to posterity; it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put”
Euripides
“It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.”
William Osler
“I practiced on a small board before I tackled the real thing. I cut a piece of poster I wouldn't use and put that on a board to see how the poster would react to glue and water… I also started with the small cabinets that were not the focal point of the kitchen, so if I made a mistake, those would not be the ones people see first.”
Jonathan Fong
“As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?”
John Trumbull
“I was a lesbian poster child.”
Claudia Christian
“We are extremely proud to be part of the poster movement. We feel like Seattle has had a huge hand in shaping that. There are a lot of amazing designers in this city that helped pave the way for this movement, and we are just happy to be mentioned in the same breath.”
Don Clark
