Quotes About Legacy

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.

Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what's done for Christ will last.

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Before Elvis there was nothing.

Everyday create your history, every path you take you're leaving your legacy.

You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're always walking on tiptoe.

If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

Don't forget your history nor your destiny