Outlive Quotes

I don’t want to knock photography, and I don’t feel that film is up there but photography isn’t. I think they’re next to each other really, you know. There’s an incredible strength to a still picture. Or there can be an incredible strength to a still picture that can outlive you. That can outlive a film.

I would like the Hunter Foundation to outlive everything.

Longevity, for a columnist, is a simple proposition: Once you start, you don’t stop. You do it until you die or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax.

Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.

Planet Earth is far more resilient than humans and will certainly outlive us.

There are 146 countries above us where the men have longer lifespans, and the biggest blow is that even with four wives who don’t fast for them, the Arab men outlive our good old Indian dudes.

I’ve achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

Everything is so unstable in these times of progress at any cost, and social customs and methods of life alter so rapidly, that a few years now suffice to change completely the face of usages which, at their inception, bade fair to outlive the age – so enthusiastically were they welcomed by the public.

A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You.

The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken – it’s only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That’s the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.

The poets‘ scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

I hope to outlive my enemies.

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.

It’s not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.

Audiences aren’t going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I’m dead, buried and forgotten. They’re going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told Mr. Coolidge when he dedicated this monument that this rock is being carved with a monument that will outlive our government.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.

I don’t want to outlive my money.

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

Though not really a comedy, ‘Rosewater’ is a demonstration of the creed behind ‘The Daily Show‘: belief in the crucial need for impious wit against entrenched power. The freedom of the press is also the freedom to depress – and to inspire. That’s a message that can outlive any Oscar season.

I want to write music that will outlive me.

A classic song is timeless. You’ll never outlive a classic song. I’ll never put The Beatles ‘In My Life‘ on one day and say, ‘That doesnt move me any more.’

If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

People just haven‘t saved enough for retirement. And they’re going to outlive their money.

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That’s one of their nicest qualities – their brute persistence.

Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It’s important for a woman to be able to control her finances.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

To outlive one’s child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

I was fortunate to play with so many wonderful footballers and under the greatest manager of all time, but I do believe that a club‘s ethos, the principles of how it plays, should outlive even the biggest individuals in its history.