Quotes About Legacy

Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.

Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted.

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.

I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.

My late father used to say that they started out without two nickles to rub together and lived in that little house in Everroad Park West.

I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.

As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.

My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland.

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

And everything that comes out of my mouth is gonna be repeated in two-sentence-long bites for the next years of my life. Certain words travel far and wide.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

Cover the earth, before it covers you.

At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.

I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.