Quotes About Legacy

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.

Most people die at age 25 and are buried at age 65.

Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come of the story and song of those times.

We must be authors of the history of our age.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.

I am considered an icon at the age of 20 when people like after 40s or after they die are considered icons. It's just amazing!

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.

The fact of the matter is fame predates even the age of cinema.

A hero in one age will be a hero in another.