Quotes About Legacy

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me.

As I go about my work as Premier, I know I stand on the shoulders of giants.

If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!

I'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.

You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered.

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

I'm not into clubbing. I want to be known for my work.

I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.

Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.

Garry Hill is a pleasure to be around, and his work is a rewarding reflection of my career.

I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about.

I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.

My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.

My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty.

The Capitol is the best work I have ever done, or shall ever do, and I am glad to have Given it to St. Paul.

Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated as having. It's certainly true of Shakespeare.

Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.

A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.

My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.