Quotes About Legacy

It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get tangled in my rocking chair.

I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.

I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the blessings they have inherited.

We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.

I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

I hope that I have given happiness to others. I hope I have given children to the world, and that I have made some kind of a mark for myself here.

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

At the end of our lives we hope we will look back and, like an incense stick completely burned away, will have poured forth all our fragrance into the world.

The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.