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Quotes About Legacy

Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.
~ George Gamow
When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.
~ George Shearing
So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
What if I told you that I put my whole life into Tintin?
~ Herge
I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life.
~ Joanna Lumley
By your father's word has your life been given to me to protect. Now do I give you my life in return, yours to keep until the day I die. --Falon to Shanelle
~ Johanna Lindsey
Don't let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
~ Barbara Johnson
Our first half is about how to make a living, and our second half has the promise of being about how to make a life.
~ Bob Buford
My life is a contribution.
~ Byron Katie
Brothers, what we do in life........echoes in eternity.
~ Russell Crowe
Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art
~ Seamus Heaney
I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
~ Stephen Spender
If there is anyone dependent on your income - parents, children, relatives - you need life insurance.
~ Suze Orman
The most important thing you do in your life is to die.
~ Timothy Leary
Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.
~ Tom Hanks
On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."
~ Tom Waits
It's not how long you live, but how you live that's important. Therefore, don't make your life just livable, make it memorable.
~ Tony Robbins
All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.
~ Michael Drayton
We must remember that life begins at home and we must also remember that the future of humanity passes through the family
~ Mother Teresa
I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.
~ Nicole Kidman
Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.
~ Norman Rockwell
Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.
~ Periander
The temples perish, but the God still lives.
~ Philip James Bailey