Quotes About Legacy

What will be the legacy of your own quilt? How will you be remembered? These questions are potent measuring sticks for anyone who cares about making a difference, not just making a living.

As noted author and speaker Rabbi Harold Kushner once wisely wrote, "Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so the world will at least be a little bit different for our having passed through it.

This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on earth.

Los británicos, al igual que los estadounidenses, recuerdan la Segunda Guerra Mundial como una época en la que su mejor generación salvó al mundo de la maldad del nazismo.

The men the Americans now call 'the Greatest Generation' were not all the selfless heroes they are often portrayed to be: a proportion of them were also thieves, plunderers and abusers of the worst kind.

I get that--but why replace him with this guy? I mean, Dick Clark did American Bandstand. All this guy's done is deny that he's gay.

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

La gente me pregunta "por qué no lo dejas?". El hecho es que no me puedo retirar hasta que no estire la pata. Creo que no acaban de entender lo que gano con todo esto. No lo hago sólo por el dinero ni por ti. Lo hago por mi.

We never realized just what the scale of this thing would become. How did it get so big when we're not doing anything much different than what we did in 1963 in the Crawdaddy Club? Our usual set list is two-thirds standard Stones numbers, the classics. The only thing that's different is the audiences have grown and the show's gotten longer.

People say, "Why don't you give it up?" I can't retire until I croak. I don't think they quite understand what I get out of this. I'm not doing it just for the money or for you. I'm doing it for me.

What I found about the blues and music, tracing things back, was that nothing came from itself.

The very night that the trajectory of my life had been set — I was an executioner's son, and so would be an executioner — was also the night my world became unmoored.

Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had, what, a 10-year run?

Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie?

Everyone who is alive has a ghost inside them, don't they?

It's the dying that makes the living matter.

I am willing to make people uncomfortable so that my daughter doesn't have to!

History is coming for the empire.

As far as he knew, no one in his family had turned out normal yet and he didn't see why he should be the first.

The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconceivable figure.

The rich of this world will vanish like smoke, and no memory of their past pleasures will remain. But even in their lifetime they do not enjoy them without bitterness, weariness and fear, for the very things whence they derive their pleasures often carry with them the seeds of sorrow.

A dead man's shroud has no pockets.

Dead children do not give us memories, they give us dreams." Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking   I

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past