Quotes about Legacy
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
— Coco Chanel
They never raised a statue to a critic.
— Martha Graham
Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose... Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
— John F. Kennedy
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
— Will Rogers
My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met 'em at the boat.
— Will Rogers
You have been speaking about William Carey. When I am gone, say nothing about William Carey-speak only about Willam Carey's Saviour.
— William Carey
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
— William Faulkner
Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills
— William Hazlitt
Words are the only things that last for ever.
— William Hazlitt
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
— William James
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar…. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.
— William James