Quotes about Legacy
My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
— John Wooden
I made a difference. I changed things, but it's a little too late for me.
— Judith Love Cohen
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
— Seneca
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
— Seneca
Tennis just a game, family is forever.
— Serena Williams
A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.
— Shane Claiborne
The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.
— Oprah Winfrey
the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
— Ellen Glasgow
Invest time that will compound forever.
— Henry B. Eyring
One of our nation's greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
— Jimmy Carter
I always judge people who spend a lot of time in public office say they care about things, if the day after they leave, they no longer talk about them, then I don't think they cared much about them.
— Joe Biden
This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time.
— Wendell Berry