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Quotes About Legacy

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
~ William E. Gladstone
I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.
~ Giada De Laurentiis
Now is our time. It's our time to chase rainbows and build castles in the sky. It's our time to create a life that we love. Because someday, it will no longer be our time.
~ Shawn Anderson
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
~ Ralph Ellison
If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth.
~ Roberto Clemente
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It's easier to die when you have lived, than it is to die when you haven't. So I say to all young people, go make memories; beautiful memories. Because when the time comes to go, you won't go alone.
~ Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
I'm not here for a long time. I'm here for a short time
~ George Strait
When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.
~ Wes Moore
I'll probably die by the time I reach 25. But I'll have lived the way I wanted to.
~ Sid Vicious
There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead
~ Benjamin Franklin
Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
~ Alex Haley
The men who make history have not time to write it.
~ Klemens von Metternich
There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Will be the 14th time I've coached in Neyland Stadium. ... I've coached there more than some of their head coaches.
~ Steve Spurrier
Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.
~ Casey Stengel
You'll have time to rest when you're dead.
~ Robert De Niro
It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to see the fruit of his labor.
~ Will Graham
I don't want to extend my career for individual records. This is the time to go.
~ Kumar Sangakkara
The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.
~ Howard Cosell
Algernon Charles Swinburne
~ Today will die tomorrow.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Longevity conquers scandal every time.
~ Shelby Foote