Quotes About Legacy

A long life is a life well spent.

Life is short and I have some things I'd still like to do.

In this world, there is life and death; he who misses the life shall never die anymore, because he is already a dead!

Life only avails, not the having lived.

The end of a life is always vivifying.

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way.

This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.

We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.

We're all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another.

Kids are always the only future the human race has.

There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death.

I've been in a multimedia extravaganza for 50 years and it's gone by so quickly that it's unimaginable. And it's also a major part of my life that has gone by.

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.

I hate to see it go, I'll tell you that. I played here all my life. Eighteen years I played here and I'm sorry to see it go.

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

[Harriet Tubman] lived such a full, complex, and irrefutably-dynamic life that all the craft in the world would be insufficient in honoring her legacy.

I am indebted to [my grandmothers] always for cradling me in the heart of Christ and encouraging my passion to press towards the mark of the high calling on my life, wherever that takes me.

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.