Quotes About Legacy

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. Hero isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

I told him to buy land, my mum says, they're not making it anymore.

This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you're alive - or praising you after you ain't.

You're training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

When you die, trust me, the most difficult person to leave behind is yourself.

Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now? she says.

A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.

Some little part of themselves for someone in the future to discover. Maybe a thought. We were here. We built this. A reminder.

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

So you're the winner of this game show, Seth says, and you get a choice between a five-piece living room set from Broyhill, suggested retail price three thousand dollars— or—a ten-day trip to the old world charm of Europe. Most people, Seth says, would take the living room set. It's just that people want something to show for their effort, Seth says. Like the pharaohs and their pyramids.

Grace says, We all die. She says, The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything... Nothing was ever good enough, my mom says, so here at the end of my life, I'm left with nothing.

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash. I am Ozymandias, king of kings.