Quotes About Legacy

one or both of those babies could be president one day. Or they could discover the cure for a terrible disease, or one could be a famous musician or even a preacher.' I stopped and considered for a minute, wondering what would impress her more than that. 'Or just be fine and decent men or women, or man and woman, who would be a blessing to you in your old age. There's a purpose for every soul that comes into this world...

Give me a business that's family-owned and operated anytime. And I'm talking about a local family, not one that lives in Arkansas.

When you got old there was the worry of indignity and dying.

No dignity in death and not much more when she was living

Annie found herself being drawn into the conversation despite herself. She'd been terrified of dying since she was a child. Not the reality of pain or illness, but the idea of the world going on without her.

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

As I looked out at the glittering waters of the Pacific I was seeing for Carl. He knew that it's not for any one generation to see the completed picture. That's the point. The picture is never completed. There is always so much more that remains to be discovered.

It's not for any one generation to see the completed picture. That's the point. The picture is never completed. There is always so much more that remains to be discovered.

I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.

We all should respect Chris Stevens, who dedicated his life to trying to improve relations between the Arab world and the western world.

I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director.

The Westerns have probably affected me more than any one thing, Western-related material. I love Westerns.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

My drive comes from my parents and from Westminster.

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

It is a truth universally unacknowledged at Westminster that there is life after politics.

When the Egyptians were building the pyramids or the Romans were building roads, or you had the westward push with the railroads, I don't think that the guys on the ground were spending a lot of time thinking, 'Hey, hundreds or thousands of years from now they will look back at the brick I have just laid down here and say that I changed the world!'

My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.

You see your children growing. You look at your grandchildren, and you say to yourself, 'What if I weren't here? Have I done all I can to prepare them for their role in life?' You realize that you never quite do everything, but you want to do better than what you have done.

Being a popular director or actor's son can be frightening in this industry. What if you are not able to make it?

What if Picasso had gone to the Moon? Or Andy Warhol or Michael Jackson or John Lennon? What about Coco Chanel? These are all artists that I adore.