Quotes About Legacy

A faire death honours the whole life.

If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life?" - Qyburn

The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.

I'm just beginning to live the next chapter of my life. In other words, politics - being governor and president - is not the end of my life. It's a chapter.

I'm comfortable with how I lived my life as the president.

I view my time in politics as a chapter, not my life.

I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.

The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.

Each of us brings with him an element, more or less important, of the life of humanity to come.

The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.

Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.

I had a great dad and we had a great relationship, but he's still a part of my life.

Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable because the photos will come back to haunt them.

When I go, I'll take New Year's Eve with me.

When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures

There's only one story, the story of your life.

I have one show biz picture in my house. It's with Mr. Hope. I have asked for one autograph in my life: Mr. Hope's.

The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness.

To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life; and the world has scant consideration for the man who neglects it.

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.