Quotes About Legacy

At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades…I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination…These people are with me. It's just a stage of your life when the death of people doesn't banish them out of your consciousness, They're part of the light in your head.

Only the very stupid or the very deprived can any longer help knowing that the documents of civilization have been written in blood and tears, blood and tears no less real for being very remote.

Let whoever can win glory before death.

I composed habits for those acres so that my last look would be neither gluttonous nor starved. I was ready to go anywhere.

finally the end arrives when the body he was lent collapses and falls prey to its death; ancestral possessions and the goods he hoarded are inherited by another who lets them go with a liberal hand.

the wide kingdom reverted to Beowulf. He ruled it well for fifty winters, grew old and wise as warden of the land

he handed down orders for men to work on a great mead-hall meant to be a wonder of the world forever; it would be his throne-room and there he would dispense his God-given goods to young and old

And hope and history rhyme.

Famous for his deeds a warrior may be, but it remains a mystery where his life will end, when he may no longer dwell in the mead-hall among his own.

And a young prince must be prudent like that, giving freely while his father lives so that afterwards, in age when fighting starts steadfast companions will stand by him and hold the line.

What a tragic irony, that the more we understand of biology, the less we have of it to learn from and enjoy. What will be the legacy of this new century - to cherish and to protect Nature or to see butterflies and zebras and much more vanish into legend like the thylacine, moa and dodo?

People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs

I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.

Since the dawn of time every one will die, Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.

The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making 'Star Trek.' But most of the time, I don't think about it.

I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga -- it will all equal itself out.

The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one of their favorite songs of all time.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.