Christine Gregoire Quotes

What does legacy mean? I never think or go there.

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

I want to leave a nice legacy.

I think legacies are most meaningful with the impressions that a person can leave on a group of people.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

We are tomorrow's past.

A legacy for me is being a piece of the soundtrack of someone's life.

I'm very much into legacies.

Leaving a legacy behind is huge.

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.

I'll never forget the first time I saw someone who had died. It was my grandfather. And I knelt next to his coffin. And all I could do was eye level was look at his hands. They were enormous hands. And all I could think was, 'Those hands dug freedom for me.'

Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world.

Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.

Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind, as we have given our lives to them.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!'

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.

I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.