95 Movie Quotes about Legacy (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

Updated: Oct 26, 2025

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.

51 You know, when I'm dead and buried, all I'm going to have around to prove that I was here was some shower curtain rings that didn't fall down. Great legacy, huh?

John Candy as Del Griffith in Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

52 Your father left us nothing but a legacy of bad debts hidden by a good name. That name is the only card we have to play.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997)

53 We have nailed our names in the pages of history enough for today.

Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket

54 You knew enough to tell Saavik that how we face death is at least as important as how we face life.

William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

55 This is the kind of legacy I dreamt about.

Jackie Chan as Yang Naing Lee in Rush Hour (1998)

56 Well, you'd been lucky, if you'd inherited a few things from your father.

John Wayne as George Washington McLintock in McLintock! (1963)

57 What they gonna put on your tombstone? 'Here lies a man, 27 years old. He died, but he ain't no punk.'

Richard Pryor as Sugar Ray in Harlem Nights

58 We'll find immortality together for they'll remember me through you.

Vincent Price as Professor Henry Jarrod in House of Wax (1953)

59 Yuck, you! How did you come into money? -An unexpected legacy. My uncle simo, the noted carthaginian elephant breeder, came to an untimely end.

Zero Mostel as Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

60 I wrote out a will and I gave it to the warden. I'm leaving everything to you. A pile of books. Maybe you can get something for them second hand. And a picture of my mother, in a silver frame. And a souvenir pillow from Atlantic City.

Austin Pendleton as Earl Williams in The Front Page (1974)

95 Movie Quotes about Legacy (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

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