Quotes About Legacy

My dad was a great athlete growing up, and he could never fulfill his dreams of playing professional baseball.

I have a personal dream to be a mom, to have a family and all that but - when I do take that break to fulfill it - I want everything else to be so strong and set that people don't forget me.

Continuing the legacy of Elijah E. Cummings requires that we fulfill our destiny to fight for the world as it should be.

There are some people who don't want to deal with the fact that we are not forever. Some people decide to live life to the fullest.

Life was something Dad enjoyed to the fullest. He put some tough years on himself. He probably would have had another 10 years to live if he hadn't been so hard on himself. But there again, he sure did live while he was here.

I was pretty successful before Sept. 11 and fully expected that when I left being mayor I would be very successful.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.

When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.

I had this struggle of, what do I do to make sure my brother is still part of everything that I do? As I was driving up to his funeral, it hit me. I'm going to wear his number.

For a while under Donald Trump, it was possible to believe that we could go back to a more functional, less rancorous time. This desire was expressed most eloquently at John McCain's funeral services.

I don't go to racers' funerals.

We don't do funerals in my family.

Funerals should celebrate a life.

I always say dad was a lot more funky than people think.

She said that she did not wish for any monuments to the Hurlbird family. At the time I thought that that was because of a New England dislike for necrological ostentation.

You may ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to desire to set down what they have witnesses for the benefit of unknown heirs or of generations infinitely remote; or, if you please, just to get the sight out of their heads.

She warned him that, if he got killed, she should cut down the great cedar at the south-west corner of Groby. It kept all the light out of the principal drawing-room and the bedrooms above it.... He winced: he certainly winced at that. She regretted that she had said it. It was along other lines that she desired to make him wince.

A gentleman in those days consulted his heirs about tree planting. Should you plant a group of copper beeches against a group of white maples over against the ha-ha a quarter of a mile from the house so that the contrast seen from the ball-room windows should be agreeable—in thirty years' time? In those days thought, in families, went in periods of thirty years, owner gravely consulting heir who should see that development of light and shade that the owner never would.

What did we want with an Empire! It

A man's books are very much himself.

The rocks would be there a million years after the light went for the last time out.

You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.

It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.