Quotes About Legacy

Overnight the Revolution had brought political freedoms never before known in Russia – and hardly ever since. People could say, write and read what they wanted, something they could not do a year later – nor their great-grandchildren a hundred years later.

When a mother dies, a house becomes a forest. My children, children, know that I am in the trees. True love means you won't find me.

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Beauty fades. Your spirit is forever.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we're not the first to die.

Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.

Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago?

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.

I was on Stealing Beauty in 1996 and then I started feeling acting was something I wanted to do forever. It made me feel like I'll still be looking for parts when I'm 70 years old.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

Our pictures are our footprints. It's the best way to tell people we were here.

The best artists are gone now.

Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me "to enjoy and play as you know", and that's stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I've been given.

I played for the best coach who ever lived, Henry Iba. I wasn't intimidated by Adolph Rupp.

The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

The best way to be missed when you're gone is to stand for something when you're here.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?