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Quotes About Legacy

An Empress drank her husband's blood in long draughts thousands of years ago.
~ Franz Kafka
This can be explained by my theory that living authors have a living relationship with their books. With their very existence they fight for or against them. The true, independent life of the book doesn't begin until the death of the author, or more correctly some time after his death, for these zealous men keep struggling for their books even a while after they have died. But then the book is left all alone and has to rely on the strength of its own heartbeat.
~ Franz Kafka
Der Tod ist vor uns, etwa wie im Schulzimmer an der Wand ein Bild der Alexanderschlacht. Es kommt darauf an, durch unsere Taten noch in diesem Leben das Bild zu verdunkeln oder gar auszulöschen.
~ Franz Kafka
Pentru orice exist? un înlocuitor,artifical,jalnic,ÅŸi pentru str?moÅŸi,c?snicie ÅŸi urmaÅŸi.Îi creezi tu însuÅ£i în chinurile astea,ÅŸi dac? nu cumva ai pierit tu însuÅ£i în aceste chinuri,pân? la urm? lipsa de speran?? a unor asemenea false leacuri tot are s? te omoare.
~ Franz Kafka
It seemed as if the shame was to outlive him
~ Franz Kafka
The reason why people still come to Tech N9ne shows is because they never know what to expect. They know it's gonna be something wild. From generation to generation, I've seen it. The parents are bringing the kids, and then the kids start comin' themselves. It's crazy, man.
~ Tech N9ne
It's kind of wild and wonderful that 'West Side Story' continues to have a life after all these years. And when you see young people who are really engrossed by this film, that's so beautiful.
~ George Chakiris
My grandmother on my mother's side lived to nearly 100 years old, and she had seen Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as a little girl and had come to Texas by covered wagon.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
El Paso is the final Wild, Wild West city.
~ Shawn Crahan
I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.
~ Clint Eastwood
I was devastated by Gene Wilder's death.
~ Craig David
I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.
~ Jason Reitman
When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could I go back on my word?
~ Sonia Levitin
If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and more dangerous Marcus Garvey is yet to appear, the Garvey with whom you will have to reckon for the injustice of the present generation.
~ Marcus Garvey
Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.
~ Bobby Hull
My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it's the wildest idea - raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I've always wanted kids.
~ Hailey Baldwin
Every fighter, when they box, wants to leave a mark in their sport, or a legacy, and I managed to do that beyond my wildest dreams.
~ Joe Calzaghe
I'm sure Roddenberry in his wildest dreams never would have thought he would have gotten five TV series out of his idea.
~ John de Lancie
I want my children and my grandchildren to live in a world with clean air, pure drinking water, and an abundance of wildlife, so I've chosen to dedicate my life to wildlife conservation so I can make the world just a little bit better.
~ Bindi Irwin
I don't want Daddy's passion to ever end. I want to help endangered wildlife just like he did.
~ Bindi Irwin
I know that Daddy had an important job. He was working to change the world so everyone would love wildlife like he did. He built a hospital to help animals, and he bought lots of land to give animals a safe place to live.
~ Bindi Irwin
With Dad, he was the ultimate wildlife warrior, and we admired him more than anything.
~ Bindi Irwin
In Surrey, we're surrounded by countryside and wildlife. And I love my garden. My father was never more at peace than when he was in his garden. I've inherited his green fingers.
~ Robson Green
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
~ William James