Quotes About Legacy

Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.

I am always watching for fear of getting feeble and passé in my work. I don't want to trickle out. I want to pour till the pail is empty, the last bit going out in a gush, not in drops.

I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.

To learn to die is an heroic work.

The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.

The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.

I don't envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y'know? I've designed it that way.

I know that the creator will go, but his work survives. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work.

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

There is a work that my father had started, a dream he had dreamt. I come to you today saying...allow me to turn that dream into reality

I can say is if anyone gets a chance to work with [Dr.]Dre, it's a moment you will always take with you throughout your career. And as of right now, the Compton album is the only thing to talk about.

Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.

My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

My work is my life, and my life is my work. I invented this assault rifle to defend my country. Today, I am proud that it has become for many synonymous with liberty.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

Until my work on this earth is done, I am immortal. But when my work for Christ is done ... I go to be with Jesus