Quotes about Legacy
The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground.
— Tina Fey
It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.
— Vernon Howard
I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.
— Will Smith
For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
— Margaret Atwood
There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves.
— Marianne Williamson
It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.'
— Maya Angelou
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.'
— Maya Angelou
We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.
— Muhammad Ali
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it
— Mark Twain
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself.
— Mark Twain
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
— Mark Twain