Quotes About Legacy

Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires.

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

...there is no everyday activity which does not aspire to be photographed, filmed or videotaped. For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Your impact on the world is significant whether or not you are aware of it, and even whether or not you desire it.

I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

All men desire to be immortal.

[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.

To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.

It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.

A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.

How you earn your money and build your career is how you earn your destiny and build your legacy