Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Nothing is being done to stop the climate and ecological emergency from happening and to secure the future wellbeing for future generations.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

I take my sleep very, very important.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

My grandpa was a preacher.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

But I’ve got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album’s worth of work as his legacy. That’s all that life allowed him.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the game.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

That’s the one for my tombstone… Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.