Quotes About Legacy

I have been in the series for over 3 years - 3 series. There will be a fourth series next year which of course I won't be in because I'm now dead. So in total I appeared in 25 episodes.

What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.

I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.

I frequently meet ex-pupils who seem to think I didn't totally ruin their educations, so that's something.

My mother and father met through climbing and it was totally natural that I would become a climber too.

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

I got love for Damon Dash as I did before. I don't know if we can be around each other in that way because times have changed. He may be a totally different person. I know I'm a different person. But nothing can erase that era, those times, those memories, those fights to get 'Roc-A-fella' where it was.

A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

All that human energy, wasted, in response to the simple fact that we know we are going to die, and we don't know what happens after, and we're afraid that this life is all there is.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity,

Despite receiving over 800 patents in his lifetime, and quite literally inventing the twentieth century, he died penniless and alone.

Did the chronicles of their lives collectively

My name is Antoinette Beauchamp, pronounced BEECH-um, and I am my mother's daughter

There are a lot of movies I've done that come and go, and don't really establish a growing fan base.

I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.

Clinton and his cigar was so much greater a man than Bush and his rifle.

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.

A child is never the author of his own history.

Now all my mother's things are dispersed also, and only this ladle has come from that time, passing through two or three sets of women's hands. It scoops the bath water well enough, the little boy's back glistens at me, with its slender spine, his skin as soft as gloves. I think of my grandmother, Bridget Dunne, and him, the past and the present. Her long set of bones lie in against the church in Kiltegan yard, his fidget below me.

Names, names, all passed away, forgotten, mere birdsong in the bushes of things.

My fate, my fate as woeful as my father's, my ridiculous, heartless, funny fate.

All that remains of me now is a rumour of beauty.

A child is never the author of his own history. I suppose this is well known.