Quotes About Legacy

At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise - though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.

My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is an actress. My granddad was a cameraman. They would've been surprised if I wanted to be a dentist or something like that.

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.

I'm surprised that we're around still. A lot of the bands that we came out with are not around.

I'm always surprised at how many people remember me from 'Degrassi.'

I think people are often surprised, but I never defined myself as, 'I'm the business guy who has to supersede what my father has done.'

In all my childhood, I never heard my grandparents say that anything shocked or surprised them. They knew what their country was capable of.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

Nothing surprises me about Berry Gordy.

I went to many games with my dad, Kevin, and looked up to the players. It's surreal that now young fans are looking up to me.

It's very surreal. It seems like everywhere I go, people always talk about 'Indiana Jones,' and I realized over the years it has made a huge impact on their childhoods... I feel very fortunate to be a part of this.

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

With The King Center as her base, my mother pressed on to fulfill a role that changed lives and legislation. She was a woman who refused to surrender the reigns of what she knew to be her assignment, even when male civil rights and business leaders tried to convince her that she should leave the work of building her husband's legacy to them.

I'm trying to surround myself during my life with the eight people I'd surround my bed with on my death.

I wanted James Carville to never die. I wanted Dylan, the poet, to not die. I wanted to put these people in a place where they would be inviolate. It wasn't enough to have a still life of them. I wanted to surround them with the lives they led.

Europeans would like to escape from their history, a great history written in letters of blood. But others, by the hundreds of millions, are taking it up for the first time, or coming back to it.

My ancestors did not come over on the Mayflower--they met the boat. --Will Rogers

The men who began their life's work on [the cathedrals], they never lived to see the completion of their work.

All I know about this fine, sweaty life, my own or anyone else's, is that in a little while I'll rise up and leave this astonishing place that gives shelter to dead people. This graveyard. And go. Walking first on one rail and then the other.

From Raymond Chandler Speaking On his wife, after her death- For 30 years, 10 months and four days, she was the light of my life, my whole ambition. Anything I did was just the fire for her to warm her hands at. That is all there is to say. She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

Hemingway says somewhere that the good writer competes only with the dead.

Hemingway dice en alguna parte que el buen escritor compite únicamente con los muertos.

Bountiful was the table of your grandsire, for there is still fat at the root of my heart from the feasts he gave in my honour.