Quotes about Legacy
At the table, where food and stories are passed from one person to another and one generation to another, is where each of us learns who we are, where we come from, what we can be, to whom we belong, and to what we are called.
— Leonard Sweet
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
— Les Brown
We should be ashamed to die until we've made some major contribution to human kind.
— Les Brown
"In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law,And argued each case with my wife;And the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw,Has lasted the rest of my life."
— Lewis Carroll
As I get older, I have a very strong urge to know about stuff. I want to learn the names of trees and birds; that's the sort of knowledge I want to pass on to my son.
— Bill Bailey
I wrote poems. That is my work. I am convinced... I believe that what I wrote will be useful to people not only now but in future generations.
— Joseph Brodsky
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
— William Temple
Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.
— Lauren Bacall
Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
— Victor Hugo
Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
— Marina Abramovic
God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.
— Rick Warren
I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.
— Tina Turner