Quotes about Legacy
And yet we spend so much time and effort and energy on those résumé entries—entries that lose all significance as soon as our heart stops beating.
— Arianna Huffington
Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?
— Arianna Huffington
Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?
— Arianna Huffington
I want to say, to Mr. Gene Simmons, hip-hop is here forever. Get used to it.
— MC Ren
I don't think it's healthy to have secrets; they hang over a family for generations.
— Viv Albertine
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
— Samuel Johnson
There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.
— Madeleine Albright
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
— Wendell Berry
Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.
— Frederick Buechner
The life thatI touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
— Frederick Buechner
The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than the day a boy is born to a couple of hick Jews.
— Frederick Buechner