Quotes About Legacy

The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.

I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker

A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place?

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

One of the best years of my life was the very last one of my career. Playing for Rangers was my dream and it meant everything to my family.

My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'

I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

A breath of our inspiration / Is the life of each generation.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

I don't believe that life can be counted by years or days, but by experience and how you leave the world by the way you live.

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

The meaning of life is to create meaning for your life.

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.