Quotes About Legacy

The process begins with the individual woman's acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.

Live every minute as if it's your last, so when you're my age, you have no regrets.

everyone's father or mother or child

We affect the future of those who come after us almost as much as we affect our own.

Dedication This book is dedicated to Sir Terry Pratchett OBE who has stood like a wossname upon the rocky shores of our imaginations – the better to guide us safely into harbour.

People don't like to speak ill of the dead even when they're monsters, let alone when they're loved ones. People like to forget any bad things that someone did and why should they remember?

I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

There is no document of civilization," he wrote, "which is not at the same time a document of barbarism." That line is on his tombstone now.

In the end, Harrington documented more than 130 languages, including Chemehuevi, Mohave, Serrano, Paiute, even K'iche'. Many of them are no longer spoken anywhere on this planet. They are preserved only in Harrington's careful records and perhaps in the fading childhood memories of the descendants of their last surviving speakers.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

I accept that one day, my music will be gone forever. So will the Sistine Chapel, Bruce Lee movies, and all the silly arts and crafts my aunt ever bought. Gone with the wind. Making songs is something I do here and now. Because light captured is just a moment, a flicker.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rottin', either write things width reading or do things worth writing.

Men die when they are finished living...

Marlowe's mighty line.

Greatness of name in the father… oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.

Rest in soft peace, and, asked, say here doth lieBen Jonson his best piece of poetry:For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such,As what he loves may never like too much.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times

I don't want what we're doing to just end up as notes for a novel.

nothing in the world, I thought to myself, is as old as what was futuristic in the past.

None of the past was usable.

You still had to use the Balkanized, legacy banking system, which was built before the internet even existed, littered with middlemen and rent-seekers all along the way. And only if the central authorities of this network allowed it to happen, would your money move at a snail's pace from point A to point B.

Now that I've reached the ripe old age of retirement, I feel it my duty to teach you everything I've learnt about love, so listen closely. Love is like… That's as far as I've gotten I'm afraid.

You seek immortality through evolution, yet you annihilate everything in your path.

The past that Southerners are forever talking about is not a dead past--it is a chapter from the legend that our kinfolks have told us, it is a living past, living for a reason. The past is a part of the present, it is a comfort, a guide, a lesson.