Legacy Quotes

Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.

Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for ...

Originality must compound with inheritance.

Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.

Months later, when I rarely saw the Angels, I still had the legacy of the big machine -- four hundre...

Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look...

My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand ...

The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundre...

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single ...

I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased...

The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to b...

Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequea...

Are we being good ancestors?

I also remember being struck by de Sade's will, in which he asked that his ashes be scattered to the...

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who wer...

Children need fairy tales, but it is just as essential that they have parents who tell them about th...

Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Ge...

Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legacy - ...

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronaut...

At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.

You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn'...

The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the nobl...

We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as gua...

I get asked a lot about my legacy. For me, it's being a good teammate, having the respect of my team...

I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more...

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a paint...

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your...

Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, an...

This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future histori...

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to lea...

If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.

This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and ...

She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Nivas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show)...

Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freed...

When now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes...

Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust i...

Unfortunately his Zen training never quite produced in him a Zen-like calm or inner serenity, and th...

On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several ext...

However much they may smile at her, the old inhabitants would miss Tillie. Her stories give them som...

Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe...

For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to...

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for th...

The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterp...

The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the ...

the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propaga...

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

Don Ricardo wanted a successor worthy of himself. Jorge would always be cocooned in the privileges o...

as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive

The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period withou...

Come out into the world about you, be it either wide or limited. Sympathize, not in thought only, bu...

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart to...

People who live according to the pure code of honor are not governed by the profit motive; they are ...

vocations almost always involve tasks that transcend a lifetime. They almost always involve throwing...

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our sto...

I had an inheritance from my father,It was the moon and the sun.And though I roam all over the world...

Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pund...

Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from ...

My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was an...

The wealth of the imperial countries is our wealth too. On the universal plane this affirmation, you...

The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors th...

The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can ma...

A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life pl...

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will...

If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about tha...

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.