Quotes About Legacy

I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well, two or three times, will make your family rich for life?

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.

Life is but a series of memories you make.

Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.

I'm forty four; I'm way closer to dead than I am life of the party.

Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael Creaux Rebennack. I'm proud of them names.

The only people I ever felt intimidated by in my whole life were Bob Gibson and my Daddy.

There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

Death is not too great a price for a life fully lived.

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

If life is worth living then it's worth recording.

The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There's no greater satisfaction.

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives

How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.