100 Movie Quotes about Legacy (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Feb 19, 2026

Memorable quotes about legacy, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant? Or will I be the Emperor who gave Rome back her true self?

Richard Harris as Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator (2000)

12 Ultimately, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how, but we can decide how we meet that end, in order that we are remembered as men.

Oliver Reed as Proximo in Gladiator (2000)

13 There was a dream that was Rome. It shall be realized. These are the wishes of Marcus Aurelius.

Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (2000)

14 You have etched in the rock of virtue a legacy beyond compare.

John C. Reilly as Wreck It Ralph in Wreck-It Ralph

15 But there are times when suddenly you realise you're nearer the end than the beginning. And you wonder. You ask yourself what the sum total of your life represents.

Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai

16 Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die.

Sean Bean as Odysseus in Troy

17 The Force is strong in my family. My father has it. I have it. And... my sister has it.

Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

18 But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game. It's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again.

James Earl Jones as Terence Mann in Field of Dreams (1989)

19 But now you're the one. You're the one that's gonna keep his spirit alive. You're the one that's gonna make sure that he didn't die for nothing.

Tony Burton as Tony Duke Evers in Rocky IV (1985)

20 We'll never be obsolete. Carry on the tradition. We're the best.

Slim Pickens as BOB LF-28 in The Black Hole (1979)