Quotes About Legacy

He played for six championship teams. He reached ten Finals and fourteen Conference Finals. His

For my father and for my son. I hope I can be half as good of a dad.

Living and dying is not the big issue. The big issue is what you're going to do with your time while you are here.

What is Mozart doing right now? A. He is decomposing.

the ancient Church of St Mary Axe. The church was originally called St Mary, St Ursula and her 11,000 Virgins, a reference to an entourage including St Ursula and her handmaidens who were beheaded with axes in 451 AD. Some thought the church itself was that old; others thought it was built a few hundred years later.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -- which he then spends sending his son to college.

The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

God put me on earth to accomplish certain things. Right now, I'm so far behind, I'll never die.

Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.

Tengo que estudiar la política y la guerra para que mis hijos tengan la libertad de estudiar matemáticas y filosofía. –John Adams

tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That's why we've got to make sure we pass it on.

Home gives you something no other place can...your history...home is where your history begins.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.

If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile?

I believe that people of substantial wealth potentially create problems for future generations unless they themselves accept responsibility to use their wealth during their lifetime to help worthwhile causes.

I think most people want to be remembered with the causes they feel worthwhile and helped promote.

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

Every day, at the end of the day, I ask myself, 'Am I living my life worthy of the sacrifice and commitment the people who went before me made on my behalf?'

I come from a family that was very strong, very successful, very bizarre, and terrifically exciting. Being a Korda is something I regard as special - not wonderful, or worthy of a national monument, but special.

As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.