Quotes About Legacy

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

She looked like the great grandmother of every whore in the world. The devil got his money's worth that night.

Statues of Confederate soldiers

The Confederacy "had surrendered but was never whipped.

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

If you don't tell your kids/grandkids what God has done for you, don't expect their hearts to be captured by your God! Worst

Paternity is a long way from fatherhood.

Columbia Law School and Coolidge's Attorney

Without the Jesuits you wouldn't be enjoying your gin and tonic.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

People find different ways of keeping the ones they loved among the living, he said cautiously. Children. Memories. The names of things.

The process of adapting to the new conditions was slow and painful, but it need not have been. It was fifteen years or more before the studios began dimly to understand how best to operate in the new environment. Aging owners and production heads rigidly clung to the old methods of mass production in studio complexes with enormous overhead costs.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

What the winners of finite games achieve is not properly an afterlife but an afterworld, not continuing existence but continuing recognition of their titles.

Properly speaking, a culture does not have a tradition; it is a tradition.

Victories occur in time, but the titles won in them are timeless. Titles neither age nor die.

Titles, then, point backward in time. They have their origin in an unrepeatable past.

Any attempt to vary from the past in such a way as to cut the past off, causing it to be forgotten, has little cultural importance.

Cultural deviation does not return us to the past, but continues what was begun and not finished in the past.

You get one life and it rolls out like a long hallway carpet. It begins on the day you are born and keeps on rolling until you drop. There's no refresh button, no start-over option.

We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage.

No member of the human race stepping out onto another heavenly body could possibly have represented the best of humanity more than Neil Armstrong did.