Quotes About Legacy

My days of being a full time wrestler are over. Nothing wrong with that, that's just the general progression of your career and your life.

I always thought of him [Jack Kennedy] as a prince, with a charmed life. He was a guy who was sick and in horrendous pain all the time - who would say, "I wish I had a few good days."

In life, as in death, Pope John Paul II was one of the most visible people on Earth.

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

A great need a mother has to know that her daughters will find somebody or will be okay in life. That's very primal as they get older. You know, you should get married, you should have children.

The towers fell, and the first thing that went through my head was my dad's voice: 'Well, you brought a new life into the world, and the world's over. Nice timing, numbnuts!

I'd rather have a go at life, so there's something to talk about once we're gone.

Its actually really important that you succeed at what youre succeeding at, but that isnt going to be the measure of your life.

The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'

The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.

And when like her, O Saki, you shall passAmong the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass,And in your joyous errand reach the spotWhere I made One—turn down an empty Glass!

Think, in this batter'd CaravanseraiWhose Portals are alternate Night and Day,How Sultan after Sultan with his PompAbode his destin'd Hour, and went his way.

Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,Before we too into the Dust descend;Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie,Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and—sans End!

It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.

Edward George Bulwer Lytton

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

that good people fought valiantly for disgraceful causes. . . . But by joining the Confederate war machine, all of them, irrespective of their personal motivations, advanced their nation's political agenda—the perpetuation and territorial expansion of human bondage and the misery that it entailed."9

Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.

BY ALL ACCOUNTS, HOWEVER, Washington did not want the presidency.

For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

Forty-four years ago