101 Movie Quotes about Legacy (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: Mar 23, 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.

41 After I am dead and I'm gone, what do you think the world will say of me? -It will say you extended the limits of glory.

Rod Steiger as Napoleon Bonaparte in Waterloo (1970)

42 What was that thing he said? That thing King Leonidas said. 'Go tell the Spartans now that passeth by that here obedient to their laws we lie'.

James Franciscus as Mike Longstreet in Longstreet

43 Contact me at once regarding inheritance. Signed, A. Shyster, lawyer.

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

44 Why not do something great and leave a good name after my death, so that I shall be a proud man?

Quote from The Green Jade Statuette (1977)

45 You'll be nothing! -Five hundred years from now, who'll know the difference?

Pamelyn Ferdin as Lucy Van Pelt; Stephen Shea as Linus Van Pelt in Play It Again, Charlie Brown (1971)

46 Luke, the Force runs strong in your family.

Frank Oz as Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

47 What is this doohickey? -No. Why, that's no doohickey. It's a thingamabob. Been in the family for generations. And I never even knew I had it. Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo...

Jim Cummings as Roo; Jim Cummings as Tigger in The Tigger Movie (2000)

48 I want to leave something behind me... something worthwhile. Not just a lot of numbers in a bank account.

David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight in Knight Rider (1982)

49 He paid the help next to nothing. He drove them like sled dogs. - Wonderful man. -Wonderful! Now that he's gone, I carry on his work.

Geraldine Fitzgerald as Mrs. Kathleen Monahan in Easy Money (1983)

50 Son, one day you're gonna have to earn your own living. It's time you learned the family business. Sit down. Write this down.

Danny DeVito as Harry Wormwood in Matilda (1996)