Quotes About Legacy

We're here, and then we're gone, and it's not about the time we're here, but what we do with the time.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.

We're on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what's more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?

Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.

When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.

It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

If the game of life ended tonight, would you be a winner?

Thinking about death... clarifies your life!

It is hard to know if what you are going to do in life is up to you, or a sum of the contribution of others, plus the circumstances you are born into.

Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.

After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

Thanks to Bart Simpson, I have a pretty good life.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

Probably death is the best invention of life.

You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life.

Every day life must always be lived against the backdrop of eternity.

I know how big Blink are and I know the legacy with it and everything, but Angels & Airwaves, to my heart and to the people who like it, this is the release of my life.

There's nothing more life-changing than fatherhood.