Quotes about Legacy
I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember my grandmother as a queenly woman. My father could be stern, and my grandparents would remind him that we were just boys.
— James Faust
I grew up in a family of storytellers, but Google has destroyed us because you can fact-check everything. We'd always like the stories to be a little better than they were.
— George Clooney
My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.
— Alice Walker
I always dreamed about being a pro QB but more than anything, I wanted to be like my dad.
— Tim Tebow
Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.
— Myles Munroe
If we provide the young with a strong foundation, we can leave behind a legacy substantially greater than most are able to bequeath. As for the women, the old adage that you invest in a woman, you invest in a generation, still rings true today.
— Joyce Banda
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
— Winston Churchill
Biography lends to death a new terror.
— Oscar Wilde
When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. and the portrait in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty. p 349
— Oscar Wilde
The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
— Oscar Wilde
Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.
— Oscar Wilde
Ah, Robbie, when we are dead and buried in our porphyry tombs, and the trumpet of the Last Judgement is sounded, I shall turn and whisper to you, 'Robbie, Robbie, let us pretend we do not hear it.
— Oscar Wilde