Quotes About Legacy

the world. They died in the 1980s.

That's how it always was and always will be, he thought a little bitterly. We come in with nothing, and we go out with nothing.

Forgotten Front." Much of the amnesia was caused by Italians who'd

The only way to make my life matter is to choose less. And the first thing I need less of is me. Once that issue is settled, I am in a position to live a life that lasts longer than I do.

The old English preacher Charles Spurgeon said: "A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts and not marble.

Every day that you get up out of bed, every day God gives you on this earth, is an opportunity for you. He gives you each day to do with it whatever you want. You can waste it, or you can use it for good. Just remember, what you choose to do with each day is very important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it, and you don't know how many days you will have. When tomorrow comes, today will be gone forever. All you will have is whatever you traded this day for.

In India all politicians, except members of the Gandhi family, have to protect their base.

"Classic": A book which people praise but don't read.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others—his last breath.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Memories and hope are not so different; one is "having done" the other is "to do." Neither constitutes action. You are what you do; thus, if you do nothing, you are nobody. If you once did great things, you think you are great. You coast along on dead, preserved laurels, lifeless and wasting away.

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

You haven't lived until you've died in California

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.

Most people are dead. Hitler. Ray Charles. Some other guys. But mostly those two.

Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends

Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.