Quotes About Legacy

I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

I don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day.

I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure

Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.

Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.

It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.

Funny how someone can come into your life for such a brief time but leave such a lasting impression.

Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation

My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

We must marry, have children, reproduce the species.

The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.

A good death does honour to a whole life.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?

Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.

The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'

A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity.

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.