Quotes About Legacy

I feel autobiographies should be written when you're retiring and there's so much to talk about as you've been working for so many years then. It becomes more interesting and there's more material to go in the autobiography.

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

Everyone knows Iker Casillas. We have all followed him being at the top level for so many years. What he has done for the national team is something impossible to equal. But I try and learn from him when we are there,and train the best I can.

Glenn was the one who invited me to join the Eagles in 1974, and it turned out to be a gift of a lifetime to have spent so many years working side by side with him. He was funny, strong, and generous. At times, it felt like we were brothers, and at other times, like brothers, we disagreed.

When you've been at the top of the sport for so many years, it's your life, and it becomes very difficult just to quit boxing and find something else to be happy.

Harvard was very important to me and has been very important to so many people for so many years.

I'm not a rich person financially, but I am in mind and soul. I have so much energy and strength, and I can do a lot of things that make me, and I think my fans, quite happy. When everything's gone, music alone shall live on.

I've only got so much time on this Earth and then that's it. So I better make the most of it.

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

My son is the main shareholder of my company, and I help him explore some of those opportunities that are related to things I know about, such as energy and the environment. But I'm active because I can't think of anything else to do in my so-called retirement.

Roma Non è Stata Construita Un Giorno

But it's because our time is limited that life is so precious, so beautiful. And what matters is what we do in the time we've got.

If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.

Booth immortalized himself by staging one of history's greatest dramas. In the process, he accomplished what every actor aspires to do: he made us all wonder where the play ended and reality began.

I want us to be doing things, prolonging life's duties as much as we can. I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished gardening.

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

The ceaseless labor of your life is to build the house of death.

The usefulness of living lies not in duration but in what you make of it. Some have lived long and lived little. See to it while you are still here. Whether you have lived enough depends not on a count of years but on your will.

If I can, I will prevent my death from saying anything not first said by my life.

for this present child of my brain, what I give it I give unconditionally and irrevocably, just as one does to the children of one's body; such little good as I have already done it is no longer mine to dispose of; it may know plenty of things which I know no longer, and remember things about me that I have forgotten; if the need arose to turn to it for help, it would be like borrowing from a stranger. It is richer than I am, yet I am wiser than it. Few devotees of poetry would not have

que a morte me encontre plantando minhas couves, mas despreocupado com ela e ainda mais com minha horta inacabada.

Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said. -from That intention is judge of our actions

To lament that we shall not be alive a hundred years hence, is the same folly as to be sorry we were not alive a hundred years ago.