Quotes about Legacy

Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone. Pick up the stone of the past.

Spend all your love on her now. Forget not the hands, though spotted, The hair, though thinning, The eyes, though dim, For they are a part of you. And when they are gone, a part of you is gone. On the Anvil

Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.

We are missing Michael. But we do know we had him, and we are the world.

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

All I got to do is stay black and die.

You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.

Will I be less dead because I wrote this poem or you more because you read it long years hence.

You have no idea what your legacy will be because your legacy is every life you touch.

When I find myself filling with rage over the loss of a beloved, I try as soon as possible to remember that my concerns and questions should be focused on what I learned or what I have yet to learn from my departed love. What legacy was left which can help me in the art of living a good life?

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased."-Maya Angelou