Quotes About Legacy

Like water spilt upon the ground--alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass!

The race may or may not be to the swift, but tell me, is it likely that the fight will be entrusted to the dead?

After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown of shame or glory upon our heads, and begin again on a new level of progress.

There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists.

I feel like I've been on EastEnders all my life and now I'm playing King Lear.

The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.

The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.

I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they're good or bad.

What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one's life.

Children give your life a resonance that it can't have without them.

After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

Theodore Roosevelt crafted a masterpiece of service. He served people in every aspect of his life. His legacy was transformational, encompassing his family, his nation and the world.

Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.

It's hard to define somebody by one movie. I mean, unfortunately, my entire life was basically made by Billy Elliot. It was kind of created by that one catalytic moment.

My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy.

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.

I don't care if someone remembered me. Life is for living and memories for those who we leave behind.

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.