Quotes About Legacy

OUR ISLAND STORY

Frankness and courage are luxuries confined to the more comic varieties of runners-up at national conventions. Thus it is pleasant to remember Cleveland, and to speak of him from time to time. He was the last of the Romans. If pedagogy were anything save the puerile racket that it is he would loom large in the schoolbooks. As it is, he is subordinated to Lincoln, Roosevelt I and Wilson. This is one of the things that are the matter with the United States.

When Kleiner showed me the sky-line of New York I told him that man is like the coral insect — designed to build vast, beautiful, mineral things for the moon to delight in after he is dead.

There are my 'Poe' pieces and my 'Dunsany pieces' —but alas— where are any Lovecraft pieces?

all which is forgotten need not necessarily be dead

Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died.

Ulrich the Axe, famed for his bloody deeds among Christians and pagans alike.

Copp's Hill Burying Ground, which could not be many blocks away from this very house, was a favourite scene.

History had led me to this archaic grave. History, indeed, was all I had after everything else ended in mocking Satanism.

A voice from other epochs belongs in a graveyard of other epochs.

Madness was in all the Jermyns, and people were glad there were not many of them.

Eine Stimme aus anderen Zeiten gehört in einen Friedhof anderer Zeiten.

God worked in mysterious ways; Lincoln wasn't perfect, but he was perfectly suited to his task. "Taking him for all in all, measuring the tremendous magnitude of the work before him, considering the necessary means to ends, and surveying the end from the beginning, infinite wisdom has seldom sent any man into the world better fitted for his mission than Abraham Lincoln.

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

I have written about everything at Brekkukot, both indoors and out, which can be given a name; but I have scarcely said a word yet about my grandmother, who was certainly not some useless ornament about the place. On the other hand, if she were likened to the heart of the house, one could say exactly the same about her as one does about healthy hearts in general, that whoever is lucky enough to have such a heart is quite unaware of having a heart at all.

A new generation forgets the specters that may have tormented the old… And yet, always, to all eternity, it is the same specter assailing the same man century after century.

A new generation forgets the spectres that may have tormented the old.

There was once a king who had three sons, all

He belonged to the men who have cared for great things, not to bring themselves honor, but because doing great things could alone satisfy their natures.

a sense that history had passed them by, that their brothers and fathers and uncles had participated in something momentous while they had not.

If we can relax when our strong emotions come, then we don't pass fear on to our children and to future generations.

I inherit the results of my acts of body, speech, and mind. My actions are my continuation.

When Victor Hugo was buried, you couldn't find a whore in all of Paris. They were too busy paying their respects. That was a man – and he still has a show on in the West End.

Selbst die Verwandten der Berühmten [sind] berühmt, denn Ruhm [ist] erblich.