Quotes About Legacy

What is past is prologue.

Forty-eight years is almost enough time to hold a record.

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

Timmy, he's the beginning of it. He doesn't have to be the end all the time now.

I have yet to hear of anyone who, on his deathbed, wished he'd spent more time at the office.

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.

Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

If I make a mark in time, I can't say the mark is mine.

I'm very proud of my daughter. She accomplished a whole lot in the short time that she had here... she was a very wonderful person.

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

A piece of football history. A unique coach [Sir Alex Ferguson], among the greatest of all-time.

I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

The people who have sacrificed their view in order to get to the top have very often left no footprints in the sands of time.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

Marvin Gaye is our John Lennon. The longer he's gone, the more young people appreciate his art. 'What's Going On' was a work of genius far ahead of it's time.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.