Quotes About Legacy

I don't remember my life before I had children.

Toward the end of his life, [Arnold] Toynby said the Christianity he saw developing was brittle, imperialistic and incapable of reforming itself.

Our lives fade behind us before we die.

Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.

I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.

Thank God for vinyl! It's wonderful to be involved in something that captures your life from almost the beginning to the end. I'm absolutely blessed.

My mother was a singer, and I never heard her sing a note in my life.

At the end of your life, do you give a concession speech?

The President says, "We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come."

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs.

One doth but break-fast here, another dine; he that lives longest does but suppe; we must all goe to bed in another World.

My grandfather was one of the most amazing Baptist ministers in history, he was unbelievable. He was one of the most amazing men - the most amazing man that I ever met... He lived an amazing life.

It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you.

I want my kids to live their life with great family memories that they can pass on to their children.

I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life.

I think what distresses me most in my life is that I have so many ideas I consider exciting ideas that I will never live to execute because it takes me so long to execute.

Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65]

It's so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot have gone on to become musicians and artists in their own right who inspire me now.

I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.

My mom is a singer and my Dad introduced me to bands such as Zeppelin and the Stones so music has always played a huge part in my life.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his life started to unravel.

In a strange way, becoming a grandfather is like starting your life over.