Quotes About Legacy

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

For your children, you may house their bodies but not their souls. For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

A Mother's dream is to raise up a child who will grow up and be a blessing to the entire world.

Be the kind of man you'd like your son to become, the kind of man you would love your daughter to marry for life. Be the kind of woman you would like your daughter to be, the kind of women you'd love your son to choose for a wife.

In life, if you are intelligent, you are admired. If you are wealthy, you are envied. If you are powerful, you are feared. But if you're blessed with a good heart, you are remembered, always. It's not about the wealth, power, and intellect, but the LEGACY in life behind those people you've touched.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

It is not death that I'm apparently now succumbing to, but the rapid diminishment of lifeforce from this body of mine.

Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

It's a very American thing to hide away from death.

Death haunts everyone and never fails.

The dead have a presence.

The situation is worse than it has ever been before. This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton - death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I'll just be one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder

Give death a better name or die trying.

Death is release, if you've lived all right.

I think death is a big deal, obviously.

Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'