Quotes About Legacy

Her name is Vera. The Lady Vera Drake. And I never said she died; I said we lost her." Utter silence. "Do you understand now, Mr. Somerset?" "My God, do you mean to tell me that—that—" "Yes," said the dowager duchess.

I cannot believe you are who you are," he said, still flabbergasted. "I know she's admitted it and everything adds up. But I cannot believe it. I cannot believe I was right and your family really does go back to the Battle of Hastings." "Wrong." She was laughing and crying at once. "And I'm shocked that you don't know better—we are older than that; we were already earls under Edward the Confessor.

When we know that everything in our lives is captured, will we begin to live the life that we hope to have archived?

There is no way to deter old age from its grim duty, but a life of accomplishment makes up in quality for what it cannot add in quantity.

The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope we all can achieve… the hope that resides in the meaning of what our lives have been.

Carolyn had told me that while he was still able, Bob had arranged to have his favorite words from his favorite work of Dickens inscribed on his grave marker, but still I was unprepared for their effect when actually seen. Engraved across the granite face of the footstone was the epitaph by which Bob DeMatteis had chosen to be remembered: "And it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well.

reasons that one generation must give way to the next, as made clear in another of the letters Jefferson wrote to the equally venerable John Adams near the end of his life: "There is a ripeness of time for death, regarding others as well as ourselves, when it is reasonable we should drop off, and make room for another growth. When we have lived our generation out, we should not wish to encroach on another.

Far from being irreplaceable, we should be replaced. Fantasies of staying the hand of mortality are incompatible with the best interests of our species and the continuity of humankind's progress. More directly, they are incompatible with the best interests of our very own children. Tennyson says it clearly: "Old men must die; or the world would grow moldy, would only breed the past again.

To the wise advice that we live every day as though it will be our last, we do well to add the admonition to live every day as though we will be on this earth forever.

The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope we call all achieve, and it is the most abiding of all. Hope resides in the meaning of what our lives have been.

when the human spirit departs, it takes with it the vital stuffing of life. Then, only the inanimate corpus remains, which is the least of all the things that make us human.

The very old do not succomb to disease-they implode their way into eternity. (How We Die)

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

The dignity we create in the time allotted to us becomes a continuum with the dignity we achieve by the altruism of accepting the necessity of death.

We die so that the world may continue to live. We have been given the miracle of life because trillions upon trillions of living things have prepared the way for us and then have died — in a sense, for us. We die, in turn, so that others may live. The tragedy of a single individual becomes, in the balance of natural things, the triumph of ongoing life.

Every life is different from any that has gone before it, and so is every death.

When my time comes, I will seek hope in the knowledge that insofar as possible I will not be allowed to suffer or be subjected to needless attempts to maintain life; I will seek it in the certainty that I will not be abandoned to die alone; I am seeking it now, in the way I try to live my life, so that those who value what I am will have profited by my time on earth and be left with comforting recollections of what we have meant to one another.

My mother died of colon cancer one week after my eleventh birthday, and that fact has shaped my life. All that I have become and much that I have not become, I trace directly or indirectly to her death. ... In my professional and personal life, I have lived with the awareness of death's imminence for more than half a century, and labored in its constant presence for all but the first decade of that time.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

EÄŸer ba??ma bir ÅŸey gelirse, benim yazamad???m kitab? sen yazars?n belki. Fikir çok basit, o kadar basit ki, dikkat etmezsen unutabilirsin. Fikir ÅŸu -dünyadaki herkes Ä°sa'n?n ta kendisi ve bütün hepsi de çarm?hlara gerili. Anlatmak istediÄŸim bu. Sak?n unutma. Ne olursa olsun, bunu sak?n unutay?m deme.

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.

I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.

You can't buy back your respect you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.