Quotes About Legacy

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole.

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust, The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.

And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.

If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.

The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.

...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity.

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

The entire floor teeming with full-humans watching their children skate, all of them hoping to be the breeder of the next gold Olympian.

Treat your slaves well, my young Harvold," his grandmother would often say, "for if they die poorly at your hand, Skuld may send them back to tear you apart.

And to leave the people we meet and the places we visit better than we found them.

It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.

When Constance was born, Aunt Glo named her after the dormitory she lived in at college: Constance Hall.

The truth is that what we feel eventually comes out in our words and then our actions. If we are not careful, the actions we take when we are hurting will eventually become our legacy.

I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that." [ Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe , Locus Magazine, September 1998]

To a true collector, the acquisition of an old book is its rebirth," Oscar quoted, absent self-consciousness.

Women must leave a record for their men; otherwise how will they know us?

My mom passed away at 41 from diabetes. And I'm 42, thank you. I didn't want to do that to my son. So any time I was at the gym, that thing that helped me do that last squat was my son calling some other woman mommy. And that would just give me that extra oomph to do that last squat. I want to be around for him.

The Holy Bible. Encyclopedia Britannica. Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, otherwise known as the First Folio.

Some men's deaths left little besides unfulfilled obligations and the inconvenience of a corpse.