Quotes About Legacy

To live and know yourself, to strive, aware that life is short and one must die, to do what you can, to do what you must, this is man's life and his fulfillment.

Remember: life is a breath; soon I will vanish from your sight. The eye that looks will not see me; you may search, but I will be gone. Like a cloud fading in the sky, man dissolves into death. He leaves the whole world behind him and never comes home again.

I will write: for myself, for those who come after, and for the voices that cry out not to be forgotten.

It is right to pay heed to the stories of our people, for that is how we learn who we are and what is required of us in this life and the life beyond.

And the Wise Emrys said that Arthur would yet come again to lead his own.

The dead are so long dead," explained Merlin. "Better to have lived while alive, yes? Besides, if they achieve this, they will have conquered a giant; they will be invincible!

Dejaste de ser un príncipe cuando abandonaste a tu gente.

It is a great thing to be a king, Hawk. A very great thing, indeed. But there is authority of a kind even kings must bend to. Discover this and whether you wear a torc of gold or beggar's rags, your name will burn forever in men's minds.

I felt good that, although there was no future, there would always be a past.

We are exactly what our history made us to be.

You are only as beautiful as your last action ...

Don't live to be judged for what you haven't done. Live to be judged for what you have done.

In the autumn of your years don't make it so that what you look back on is regret. Live your life now so that whatever you do gives some sunshine before you head into the winter of your life.

When you are loved you never die.

People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur.

I made another comeback in the sweet science of boxing, and nobody say I've had more comebacks than Frank Sinatra… 'cos he's dead.

Call Malcolm Price (Pricey) a 'chancer' and you would be wrong. Pricey has, with premeditated determination, won his battles and hung his gloves up; his story is no less dramatic or tantalising than that of his Welsh ancestors.

During the depression, people fought each other for boxes of groceries and if you were lucky you might get a few shillings for fighting six rounds. When Jack Johnson was World Heavyweight Champ, back in the early 1900s, Hartlepool had a brilliant boxer called Jasper Carter. People today will never have heard of him, but almost 100 years ago he put Hartlepool on the fistic map.

The important thing today is not what we say of Lincoln but what Lincoln would say of us if he were here in this hour and could note the drift and tendency in American life and American politics.

So much of me is made of what I learned from you; you'll be with me like a handprint on my heart and now whatever way our stories end I know you have re-written mine by being my friend

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

It's your father's fault that the curse got placed and the place got cursed in the first place.

I think continually of those who were truly great…The names of those who in their lives fought for life,Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun,And left the vivid air signed with their honor.

He's still half with usConniving slyly, yet he knows he's goneInto that cellar where they'll never find him,Happy to be alone, his last work done,Word freed from world, into a different wood.