Quotes About Legacy

I've left this life with no rancour, I'll never have toothache again, Now I lie in the communal grave, the communal grave of time.

They (the Rothschilds) have never dreamed of being ashamed of their wealth nor of disguising their way of life, no more than they have ever failed to assume their roles and responsibilities as Jews.

You have to understand the purpose of life. The purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.

There has to be life after the Charlotte Mayors office.

I've got enough money to last the rest of my life ... as long as I die about four o'clock this afternoon.

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

You have to make a decision, what you want to do in life, ... Your deal can be, you can leave tomorrow. Soon as you leave, you will be forgotten.

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.

My fellow Americans, it has been the honor of my life to serve you. I won't stop. In fact, I will be right there with you as a citizen for all my remaining days.

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life.

Once you're dead, you're made for life.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

It is infamy to die, and not be missed.

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

Live in such a way as, when you come to die, you will wish to have lived. [Ger., Lebe, wie Du, wenn du stirbst, Wunschen wirst, gelebt zu haben.]

Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize...

I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars but the individual people whose lives I've touched.

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.