Quotes About Legacy

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

It's important to know where you've come from so that you can know where you're going. I probably chose my profession because I was seeking approval, adulation, admiration and affection.

Love is something that you can leave behind you when you die. It's that powerful.

I'm so proud the fans still sing my name, but I fear tomorrow they will stop. I fear it because I love it. And everything you love, you fear you will lose.

I think really the whole problem with racism and its continuing legacy in this country is that we simply love it. Who would we be without the 'struggle?'

Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.

Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.

Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.

We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.

Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.

Take away what we love, wed all be Joe Paterno.

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.