Quotes About Legacy

Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.

I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either.

Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's.

Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.

I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.

Life is short. Be of use.

... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

Life is short and art is long.

I'm not going to be somebody who wants to hold on to my fame for the rest of my life.

I wanted to do a summary of my life and career. There's been so many different looks, and so many types of songs that have become iconic, so it was just kind of fun to look back on everything

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.

I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing.

I'd like to be remembered as someone that lived life by his own rules with no regrets.

You get one life. And if you make the mistake of choosing a profession that doesn't enrich anybody but you, you wont even live that one

Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.