Quotes About Legacy

There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible, her mother's cookbook, and her father's checkbook.

Everyone expects to go further than his father went; everyone expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart-to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do.

Handel was a man of the world; but Bach was a world of a man.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing, did certain persons die before they sing.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre?

Laws die, books never.

To be somebody you must last.

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.

This was the noblest Roman of them all.

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine; he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and schedule his time as though he were about to die.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Scrolls: write on them what you want to be remembered for.

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

When you become 100, life changes completely.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness, for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.