Quotes About Legacy

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

Recognize your highest calling as early in life as possible. Proactively and creatively persist, day in and day out. Leave an enduring legacy.

You don't live forever, at least in this life.

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

God works funny so it might have just been meant for me to be an artist that doesn't sell two million records. Maybe my records might change somebody's life rather than sell thru the roof.

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.

If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

I've been short all my life. And if anyone wonders what my dying wish will be, they can stop wondering. That will be easy. I'll just tell them, 'I'll have a short bier.'

If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.

I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do.

I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.

I don't live life to be remembered for anything.

I testify of the great blessing of children and of the happiness they will bring us in this life and in the eternities.

I want the recording process to be a time in my life that I will remember.

Apart from life, a strong constitusion and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla

I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.

Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.

I think my parents' lives are worthy of writing about. I don't think my life is particularly worthy of writing about.

My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.