Quotes About Legacy

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.

Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

You know, my mother never thought I would do anything good in my life, and I was standing in this opera with four gold medals! If she were alive, maybe she'd think I was doing well!

Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

Born empty handed, Die empty handed. I witnessed life at its fullest, Empty handed.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.

When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

Remember that life is short and death is long.

Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.

A war doesn't merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that's left is the brute, the creature that we—you and I and others like us—have brought up from the slime." Stoner

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.