Quotes About Legacy

From its first startling image, Orhans Inheritance will seep under your skin and leave an indelible mark upon your heart. What lucky readers we are to inherit Aline Ohanesians gorgeous work.

A good solid bit of work lasts.

Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.

More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples.

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.

Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.

I think my husband did a pretty good job in the 1990s. I think a lot about what worked and how we can make it work again, million new jobs, a balanced budget.

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

I want to be remembered as an artist who was really passionate about his work. And as an inspiration. I do what I do to inspire people.

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I love you, love your work.' And then the next sentence is, 'I loved your brother.' John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.

Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency.

In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.