Quotes About Legacy

The good thing about being old, is you don't have to worry about dying young.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

Everyone should have this, he thought, and perhaps, at the end, everyone does. Perhaps in their time of dying, everyone rises.

no one dies happy, you can only die well

When an old man dies, a library burns.

When I die, I guess I'll go with a library card in one hand and an OVERDUE stamp in the other. Well, maybe there's worse ways.

Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.

There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there were extra bills to pay and no money to pay them with, it seemed awful. I'd think 'This isn't the way our lives are supposed to be going.' Then I'd think 'Half the world has the same idea.

And, of course, one of the great true facts of the world is this: for every old-timer who dies, there's a new old-timer coming along. And a good story never dies; it is always passed down.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.

A man's life was five dogs long, Cortland believed. The first was the one that taught you. The second was the one you taught. The third and fourth were the ones you worked. The last was the one that outlived you. That was the winter dog. Cortland's winter dog had no name. He thought of it only as the scarecrow dog…

As soon as you have a child, you see your own tombstone

Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.

Old habits died hard. Often, she thought, they don't die until we do.

He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

We all die in time," the gunslinger said. "It's not just the world that moves on.

Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh and in our minds, they put on weight.

The best thing about being old is you don't have to worry about dieing young.

Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.

Think what you will, blackbird, for I'll be here long after thee's gone they course and died thy death.

Once upon a bye, before your grandfather's grandfather was born, on the edge of an unexplored wilderness called the Endless Forest, there lived a boy named Tim

I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.

Do not force your children to behave like you, for surely they have been created for a time which is different to your time