Quotes About Legacy

The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography, they have many.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

If our biological imperative is to pass our genes to the next generation, our moral imperative has to be to try, before we become corpses, to leave them a planet they can survive on.

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.

I think the Rainbow Flag will survive forever, primarily because it's the perfect flag, regardless of whatever political meaning it may have or evolve to.

Quality survives.

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.

I never wanted to go to the Old Vic and not have it survive long after I was gone. It's not about me; it's about that theater. And the more that it's able to grow and do everything it should do without me, then I've done my job.

A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.

'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive.

Bob Dylan is someone that - I don't care how long into the future it is - somebody will still play Bob Dylan. He will always survive.

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

In the history of Indian cinema I am the only South Indian director who has survived for 12 years and 25 films in Bollywood.

You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.