Quotes About Legacy

Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.

It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.

I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.

The past has its own plans. And more often than not, the past finds a way into the here and now.

De duchessa is dood. - Silvia

I do consider myself part of black history.

The Heiress of Cameron Hill,

If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.

If I have an ambition, it's to leave the world a little better than I found it.

My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared

One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never even meet.

The outlines of birds and beasts and sailing ships could still be seen in the apothecary's attic in Grantham, along with the drawings of men and mathematical symbols. But the boy who who had made them was gone. He had taken his notebook with him: his secret world of star names and tawny lions and golden ink made from quicksilver.

Pioneers do not as a rule settle for the comfortable corners of life, and Maria Sklodowska was no exception.

Renoir, as it turned out, was also deeply anti-Semitic.

When the struggling young painter Rodolphe Salis opened Le Chat Noir in 1881, he had no idea that he was about to make history.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

Knowing that death is hovering in the wings is a great leveller. We regret so many things - and yet what does it matter in the end? We can't change anything

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Even the Pyramids were made to serve his consummate art and ambition! Although

They were proud of their nationality, which had existed nearly as long as from Columbus to our own day. They gloried in their splendid background of great deeds and their long line of heroes reaching back to Rurik.

It will be observed that when there were not enough thrones to go around, he simply created a kingdom! Certainly, with all his faults, no one can accuse him of not having provided well for his family!

I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.