Quotes About Legacy

I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?

Life as we know it is a death sentence.

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

1967 race in Boston changed not just my life, but millions of women's lives. There are also things that, when you get older, resonate more.

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

A life well used procures a happy death.

Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.

I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.

Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of.

Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy, pleasure filled life. So can I; so can you.

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

When I die, I will return to where I first came from. Back to the stars.

The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.

Worrying about how you'll be remembered is pointless. Better to try to live your life in such a way that people will respect you while you're still alive.

Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.

I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?

Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to make peace with that place.

When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.