Quotes About Legacy

It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.

Art is eternal, but life is short..I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died

I expect my life to end pretty soon. You know, I'm 71 years old. I have great faith, though. I have unshakable faith.

My mom is one of 14 children. She's a great lady. She's a Taurus. Has been a profound influence in my life, still is to this day. Born in meager surroundings in rural South Carolina.

Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that is our life, our personal masterpiece.

I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up?

Seeds carry life from generation to generation without end. Through the seeds speak the voices of the ancestors. Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.

When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.

The conscience of the dying belies their life.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.