Quotes About Legacy

This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.

But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.

Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.

I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.

Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.

I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.

Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.

There will never be another Michael Jackson, a huge pop star since (the age of) 7.

Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the 'golden age' of real estate.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

O do not weep, she says, for ages past I was and I endure

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.