Quotes About Legacy

History plays for keeps; individuals play for time.

We are only missionaries for the world, after all, and when our work is done we really don't exist. Do we? Can it be said for anyone?

Always the godfather, never the god

After someone's death, how strange to see the value drain away from his or her possessions; useful objects such as clothes, or dish towels, or personal papers become little more than trash.

Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography

My parents, who are older, think they don't have to be careful, so they eat the most contaminated fish in hopes that the less contaminated fish will be there for younger people.

I tell the parents that those who passed away remind us that we will all die, and to remember this fact; they gave their lives to remind us to live!

Graham Greene, Beryl Bainbridge, Barbara Vine, Seamus Heaney, some Dan Turner — Hollywood Detective, and Shakespeare's sonnets.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids, There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it's back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands like that in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison.

How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.

I'm the sort of man who's doomed to be a failure and I'll go to my grave without ever knowing whether I was real gold or just tinsel!

The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.

The man is nothing, the work--all.

even, like them, leave a name carved upon the wall.

J'aime ce pays, et j'aime y vivre parce que j'y ai mes racines, ces profondes et délicates racines, qui attachent un homme à la terre où sont nés et morts ses aïeux, qui l'attachent à ce qu'on pense et à ce qu'on mange, aux usages comme aux nourritures, aux locutions locales, aux intonations des paysans, aux odeurs du sol, des villages et de l'air lui-même.

Niciodat? nu se mai întoarce o fiin??. Se vor naÈ™te milioane È™i miliarde, aproape la fel, cu ochi, nas, gur?, tidv? È™i înl?untru o gândire, f?r? ca vreodat? s? se mai arate aceasta care era culcat? în patul ?sta.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

When you've worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

Hay gente que provoca felicidad allá donde va; otros, siempre que se van.» Oscar Wilde

In the Macintosh Division, you had to prove yourself every day, or Jobs got rid of you. He demanded excellence and kept you at the top of your game. It wasn't easy to work for him; it was sometimes unpleasant and always scary, but it drove many of us to do the finest work of our careers. I wouldn't trade working for him for any job I've ever had—and I don't know anyone in the Macintosh Division who would.

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family. —J. S. Bryan

Only the victors have stories to tell. We, the vanquished, were all cowards and weaklings by then, whose memories, fears, and enthusiasms should not be remembered.