Quotes About Legacy

We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh ?

In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.

He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves.

He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.

What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling?

I want people to smile when they hear my name. I love everyone. I want to help make it a better time for the kids after me.

Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

I want to be remembered as a guy who's not going to change your life but who is going to change your mood. As a guy who made you smile and say, "I miss him. He was a lot of fun."

Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.

As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.

The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?

Nothing under the sun is greater than education. By educating one person and sending him into the society of his generation, we make a contribution extending a hundred generations to come.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth.

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slavery is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you.

Isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?

Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.

One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breathe, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives--transitoriness and oblivion.