Quotes About Legacy

Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle.

I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.

Wit lasts no more than two centuries.

If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.

You act like a team player,you be nice to everyone for your entire life,then you die.

Everyone cites [Charles Schulz], but it's with good reason. He taught me timing, tone, character development, practically everything.

In memory of the esteemed Frederick Crocus, who's not dead yet, but will be one day.

Therefore I cannot but see and feel that time is passing, and I with it, and yet I would not like to go without performing some great action to serve as a monument to my name. What is lost today will not be found tomorrow and I have done nothing so far to cover myself with glory.

Life does not end when we physically do.

I came from a long line of dreamers, of storytellers, and the most dangerous stories we told were about ourselves.

I'm a Cynster--I've been raised to acquire, defend, and protect. My family is the core of my existence--without a family, without children, I'd have nothing to protect, no reason to acquire.

Maybe, just maybe, those six balls are a scarf and hat that get tucked away for years and long after I'm gone someone pulls them out and says, "Remember how Grammy was with all the wool? Remember how she knit all the time?" fingering the soft wool and pondering who I was and what I did while I was here.

Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the knitter it is an indication to write a will, bequeathing the stash to an appropriate heir.

The past is never dead. It's not even past. —William Faulkner

Fantastic truths perish slower... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.

A legacy is not about what you did while you were there it is what happens when you are gone

They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.

R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.

Everything passes, only truth remains.

When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.