Quotes About Legacy

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

Our actions in this world, and our ability to rise above the limits of our own self-interest, live on far beyond us and play their humble part in shaping a world of spirituality and peace.

...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

The bigger the person, the more their actions affect the world. If they live, perhaps they will learn that""And if everyone dies, no one learns anything

The time is not there for us to act any more, the time we waited for is here right now for us to act brightly and create a bright future, for the future coming generations.

Most people, when they reach a certain age, let down and talk about what they used to do. Well, who gives a damn about what you used to do? It's what you're doing now.

The man who invented Doritos has passed away at the age of 97. He asked to be buried with the creator of Fritos and Cheetos in a variety pack.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Live well, Ichigo. Live well, age well, go bald well, and die after me. And... if you can, die smiling.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

I don't want to leave this mess around my children to clean up. I want to swing absolutely as hard as I can to straighten things out before they get to the age where it starts hurting them.

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.

We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

For me it is a matter of pride that I have been born in the age in the which Tendulkar is playing

I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.