Quotes About Legacy

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

I'll never know what my life would have been like if they hadn't made Lawrence of Arabia. What would I be? I would maybe have 10 children, a very fat wife. I would be very fat myself. I don't know.

The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.

Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.

You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

It's interesting, the secrets you decide to reveal at the end of your life.

I've been the longest-serving police commissioner in the history of the department, but it's time in my life to move on. I'm ready for new adventures, new challenges.

Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed.

Welcome to the last 900 years of my life.

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

For those of you who don't know who I am, I played Natalie on The Facts of Life.

Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don't think I'll ever retire.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.

No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch.

It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.

The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.

Everything I did with my life I did so that I could give my parents everything they didn't have because of me.

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.