Quotes About Legacy

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

Life is simply a collection of memories, but memories are like star light... They live on Forever.

Art is eternal, but life is short.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.

My life is an apology for the life of my father.

When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.

Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life.

I'm interested in impacting people with life lessons that they can pass on. A touchdown is only remembered for one Sunday, but a lesson that can be passed on to your kids is Paramount.

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

I'm fully aware that 'Doctor Who' will always, always be part of my life, and that's not something I would run away from in the slightest. I wear it with pride, definitely.

Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.

Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst.

Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.