Quotes About Legacy

Our bodies are the children of all the suns and other stars that died before us, making the atoms that we are made of.

The newly dead are ancestors, too. We respect the chain of life and love when we celebrate that life, not mourn the death. We all know that, and we all say it, when loved ones leave.

There were many, so many men and women, beginning with my own mother, whose courage and sacrifice inspired the memory of them.

We can deny the past, but we can't escape its torment because the past is a speaking shadow that keeps pace with the truth of what we are, step for step, until we die.

there is no greater inheritance that we can give to our children than siblings.

Most people spend a good deal of energy denying that one day they will die. The common perception is that time flows forward from birth and ends with a huge question mark at death—a view that makes life meaningless and absurd. But this is a mistake. I believe it was the philosopher Martin Heidegger who asserted that time flows backward from death giving life its meaning. Death clarifies.

Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.

Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all.

Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.

It feels awesome to be a Guinness World Records title holder and to be the first artist to achieve this with Billboard. I remember being in elementary and middle school and looking at the books for all of the records, and I can't believe my name gets to be in there now.

I really want to have a possibility of going into the Hall of Fame one day. I think that's huge with a lot of baseball writers and old school guys. Of course, that's not the main goal - the main goal is winning a World Series. Hall of Fame is so far away. It's just something I've always thought about doing. I want to be as clean as I can.

I had to go out and give my team a chance. I didn't want to be remembered as the guy blowing the World Series.

Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years.

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

I do sincerely hope the Cubs win a World Series. After I die.

When we build that foundation for sustained success, and it ultimately results in a World Series, it's going to be more than just a World Series.

Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some of the reasons kids would always say they want to grow up to be just like Derek Jeter.

You play baseball. You play a lot of games. You win a lot of stuff. You win a World Series. But if that's all you've done, what have you got to show for it?

I'd rather win a World Series than have my number retired.

I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me.

Personally, I find it odd that they would name it One World Trade Center. Frankly, I think if they named it any company name, I would think it was - you know, the memorial is beautiful, but I don't know why they don't change the name. That just seems so odd to me.

The Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact.

Human beings of today are more fragile, whereas people born in wartime, during the Second World War, eventually became the great players like Pele. They were fantastic players.

The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration, the Second World War, which divided the continent until the end of the century.