Quotes About Legacy

One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I'll die with should I never use it.

I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.

Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or being forgotten.

like all other living creatures, I am the descendant of survivors, so the fear in my head is the voice of my ancestors whispering their accumulated wisdom.

I was sick of the body count that existed around my family. It seemed statistically that eventually the body count would include my family.

I owe my last breath to death but not one breath more.

If you live only for yourself, dying is an especially scary proposition.

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.

After all it is not what you make, it is what you keep or pass on.

The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you.

I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.

I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

I'll build mine tomorrow," Horace said through a mouthful of food. "This is excellent, Will! When I have grandchildren, I'll name them all after you!

Those who think only for a year, they sow food grains; those who think for a decade, they plant fruits; But those who think for generations, they prepare humans.

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.

When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.