Quotes About Legacy

I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure.

So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.

We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.

I love JFK. My mother had been a worker on his campaign and adored him.

Everybody is gonna die from something. And so the deal is how to use each day to move things forward for both you and the people you love and the country you love.

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

But liberals love to drape themselves in decades-old glories they had nothing to do with.

I have come to believe, more strongly than ever, that after people die they really do live on through those who love them.

I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them.

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

Dad didn't believe in God, but he was a lifelong member of the Church of Shit or Get Off the Can. So his actual death itself was less an event than a final sad detail.

I know that if I were a spirit, the last place you'd find me haunting would be my grave, watching my body rot.

The cobbler's children go barefoot

You're just the sperm donor, Norm," he says, heading for the door. "That's all you were ever good for. Fucking sperm.

if there is an afterlife, then nothing here mattered, and if there isn't an afterlife, nothing here mattered.

it's a point of pride whenever you can point to the ways in which you're avoiding your progenitor's defective character. I'm not like him becomes your mantra

Y ahí estamos, ante la tumba de nuestro padre, los tres hermanos Foxman, todos forjados en el mismo molde, pero cada cual con su respectivo proceso de acabado.

that's how she stays with you forever, by making sure you're okay after she's gone. It's like emotional life insurance.

It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents.

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.

The way she taught me, although I grew up an orphan, I still feel that what she was I am today. I did not lose her despite her death. I am not sure that words can describe what I am trying to tell you. I mean that by the time I was seven, she had already made me.

you should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don't have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you).

Perhaps Heaven is something you must build, and immortality something you must earn.

He who has a sword, and knows how to use it, but keeps it sheathed shall inherit the earth.