Quotes About Legacy

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

I STAND here and watch the people of this world: all against one and one against all, angry, arguing, plotting and scheming. Then one day, suddenly, they die. And each gets one plot of ground: four feet wide, six feet long. If you can scheme your way out of that plot, I'll set the stone that immortalizes your name.

Summer grasses: all that remains of great soldiers' imperial dreams

Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children.

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children.

This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.

My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

For the next seven decades the story of Smith attending these sixty-three consecutive shows has been repeated often, including by me. The trouble is, Mexicana was performed only thirty-five times.

It's the notion that the most crucial ingredient in a team that achieves and sustains historic greatness is the character of the player who leads it.

I might face death any minute now! But I should try not to put myself in harms' way as long as I can live. Of course it is not important if I die, because this is going to happen anyway. I know my purpose, my purpose is: How will my life or death impact the lives of others?

We grow up into ghosts. No

These are the parts of him I find impossible to cut myself loose from. They are beautiful qualities. But beauty is heavy, and though I'm young I am getting tired from carrying around the bits and shreds of my father's beauty.

I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives." -William Wallace

To every man his little cross. (He sighs.) Till he dies. (Afterthought.) And is forgotten.

What I'd like now is to speak of the things that are left, say my goodbyes, finish dying.

When I am dead I would rather people thought me better than I was instead of worse; but if they think me worse, I cannot help it and, if it matters at all, it will matter more to them than to me.

To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.

The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of dead men. For the life after death it is not necessary that a man or woman should have lived.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.