Quotes About Legacy

The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life.

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.

Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers.

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.

How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.

He gambled all his life, he's got 27 children, yet he's never had a wife.

Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.

There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.

At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die.

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.

Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.

I wear the chains I forged in life.

In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley.

A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

Your life, in the end, is the sum total of how you spent your time.