Quotes About Legacy

I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.

Our children are the cement of life, its up to us to make the foundation of the future!

I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do.

It is part of a sailor's life to die well.

Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.

Carlisle has a theory...he believes that we all bring something of our strongest human traits with us into the next life, where they are intensified - like our minds, and our senses.

You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.

We are all facing the end one day or another. I say, live a good and prosperous life, make sure your choices count, make them count.

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

If I could only live another century!

I've always felt my role in life was to be a mentor. If I can do that with a younger generation, that's my goal.

And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died.

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

Too many heroes in my life. All gone.

Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.