Quotes About Legacy

Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.

After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases.

My mom was an enthusiastic, positive, glass-is-half-full type of person and that is how I live my life and I owe that to her. She was an amazing woman.

Family is forever and the most important foundation in life.

Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

At this point of my life, I'm not out to protect anybody. I'm out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.

What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

I'll say my dad couldn't act to save his life and nor can my uncle and they'll say I'm the worst actor in the world.

I listen to the Beatles all the time - in my car, at the gym. The Beatles are still part of my life. And because of that, John Lennon - in life and in death - remains part of my life.

Man, meeting Michael Jordan for me was like.. black Jesus walking towards me. It was overwhelming to me to finally meet the guy I've looked up to my whole life.

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.

Life, when is spent well, is long.

You can't get out of life alive.

I was single for most of my life. The best thing that happened to me is my wife. I've got four kids. All of them go to Harvard. Much better than their dad. They're really bright kids.

If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.

To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes.

Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

Your life is your message.