Quotes About Legacy

Men are immortal till their work is done.

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

I ask myself why I do it [work]. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.

I work as my father drank.

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

All you leave the world is what you've done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains.

We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter.

You Can't Rest on Your Laurels. Your Own Body of Work Is Yet to Come.

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

The last 16 years of my daddys life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all my work.