Quotes About Legacy

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing.

If your life's worth living, it's worth recording.

I don't know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in my life.

I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.

Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.

I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?

Life is worth celebrating and worth living even though we're all headed to the same hole at the end of the day.

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

I don't know why I've spent over half of My life talking about dying

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory

You will be remembered in life only for your passions!

Peter Norman is a humanitarian, and I say "is" because in my life, Peter Norman is never deceased. He's always going to live with me.

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences.

I can honestly say that being a United States senator has been the honor of my life.

Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.

I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.