Quotes About Legacy

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

The art is long, life is short

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Our goal should be that we're going to live life to the fullest, pursuing our passions and dreams, and when it comes our time to go, we will have used as much of our potential as possible.

My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared

I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

A life without impact and contribution is a very empty life, so use your life to make the world better.

Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.

One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today.

There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.

History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.