Quotes About Legacy

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time.

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.

I'm reminded everyday that I was born to do great things, I believe that and when it's my time I shall.

I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.

It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find, so that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].

I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.

I hope by the time that I'm done in this game, I can have half the numbers Stan Musial had in his career.

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.

We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time.

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.

And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.