Quotes About Legacy

It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.

leave the world a better place than we found it

When I die, my tombstone is going to say: "The Guy Who Hired Jonathan Ive"!

Estaba ampliamente aceptado que, después de Jobs, la persona más visionaria de Apple no era Cook, sino Jony Ive, el jefe de diseño.

Weep not for me, my friends so dear. I am not dead, just sleeping here. My grassy bed, my grave you see. Prepare in life to follow me. -Zee, off a gravestone

We see our friends are round us falling. We see them buried deep in dust. In solemn silence yet they're calling. Prepare for death, for die you must. -Zee

Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people's lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write, to have an impact on society, to put a personal stamp on history. . .Art and literature are the legacies we leave to succeeding generations. We'll be forgotten, but our books and essays, our stories and poems can survive us. . .

this: what matters is not how we die but rather why we choose to live.

All I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.

When you're Singapore's leader and your existence depends on performance - extraordinary performance, better than your competitors - when that performance disappears because the system on which it's been based becomes eroded, then you've lost everything... I try to tell the younger generation that and they say the old man is playing the same record, we've heard it all before. I happen to know how we got here and I know how we can unscramble it." - On one freak election result ruining Singapore

Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards! This is your life and mine! I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.

I did not know I was to spend the rest of my life getting Singapore not just to work but to prosper and flourish.

But for a very small number of people, what we stood for could easily have done a great deal of good for Malaysia and established it for many centuries to come as a stable and viable multiracial nation. ... Kinship and feelings for one another cannot be legislated out by a political decision.

We faced tremendous odds with an improbable chance of survival. Singapore was not a natural country but man-made, a trading post the British had developed into a nodal point in their worldwide maritime empire. We inherited the island without its hinterland, a heart without a body.

part of her life wouldn't end with her death.

I guess I have realized that we don't live forever, and that the only time to do what we really want to do is now. This is the thing about a parent's death—especially the second parent's death— suddenly there is no other person standing between you and the great beyond, that darkness, the grave. I know I sound morbid, but it has been such an illuminating insight for me that I have to share it with you. Listen: the time is now. We are the next in line.