Outlive Quotes

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare

Strange, Desire

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.
George Bernard Shaw

Health, Yourself, Die

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.
Christopher Hitchens

Children, Human, Done

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

Life, Long, Friends

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

Work, Artist, Wants

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.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Time, Hope, Someone

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.
Nicholson Baker

Nothing, Around, Books

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.
Michael Bolton

Live, Looking, Common

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

Music, Goal, Actually

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

Death, Else, Genius

I want to write music that will outlive me.
Ray LaMontagne

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.
Cameron Mackintosh

Wonderful, Dead, Forgotten

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

Life, Her, Child

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

Women, Important, Woman

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.
Boomer Esiason

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