Quotes About Legacy

John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself.

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

In death a hero, as in life a friend!

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison and Pablo Picasso.

You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

As far as we know, as a species, the only reason we were put on this planet is to help continue life.

Im never looking at life in terms of legacy.

People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.

How you live your life on this side of the grave determines what happens next.

I never leave anything behind. It's like a history, a chain, a line of life, you just have to move and make new steps, and keep it evolving - but my soul is my soul.

Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.

Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.

Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.

The way you live your days is the way you live your life.

…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . ." "I've never much cared for horror stories.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.