Quotes About Legacy

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

Death is not a stalker, always looking for us. Death is a scorekeeper tallying up how much we love life and how much we are willing to work for it. We die when we stop living.

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders.

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish will endure, will leave its trace on things, will aid the final consummation.

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad?

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.

Man is immortal till his work is done.

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

Over the years, Chevron has behaved in a way that reinforces the worst stereotypes about large corporations: it has cynically avoided responsibility for its past and watched in indifference as more people become sick and die because of its failure to deal with its legacy environmental issues.

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember my grandmother as a queenly woman. My father could be stern, and my grandparents would remind him that we were just boys.

If you listen to Howard Stern, go back and listen to Lenny Bruce, so you can hear what real talent is.