Quotes About Legacy

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

When the series outlived original material, she created new stories, but used some character or incident in the canon as her jump-off point. So successful was she at capturing the color of the written word that she drew warm praise from Conan Doyle's widow and son. Denis Conan Doyle, watching from the sponsor's booth as Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce became his father's characters in a 1941 radio play, pronounced it "admirable, absolutely admirable.

You can't just sit around and watch life pass you by. You have to keep dreaming. Sonny taught me that, and I intend to do him proud.

Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of my life. I said to myself, 'Two hands, just like your dad taught you.'

I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in the same place.

Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.

All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.

Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away?

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

If you haven't had your life what have you had?

Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?

Not like [Adele Dazeems] going to follow me around for the rest of my life.

One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.

When we come into this life, we don't really own anything. And we own nothing when we leave. It is only a lease we have during our lifetime, and it is up to us to make the most of it.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.