Quotes About Legacy

Calling Billie Burke a "character actress" is like calling the Grand Canyon "quite a slice." Though she's best known for dithering supporting roles in such films as The Wizard of Oz, Topper and Dinner at Eight, Billie was a stage star, silent movie star, and a brilliant dramatic actress as well. Her comic talent was only the tip of the iceberg.

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

One might expect, on the basis of its overwhelming advantages, that the Dvorak keyboard would have completely replaced the inferior QWERTY keyboard. On the contrary, after more than 50 years, almost all typists are still using the inefficient QWERTY keyboard.

Tutti i rivoluzionari, una volta vinto il vecchio, diventano conservatori e custodi delle tradizioni.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

In other words, path dependence means that the institutions and arrangements created before—often created haphazardly or as an expedient—now constrain and shape the changes that are possible today.

Che nessuno recordi I'll tuo nome. Requiescat in Pace." ("May no-one remember your name. Rest in peace.")

My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.

There died a myriad,And of the best, among them,For an old bitch gone in the teeth,For a botched civilization.Charm, smiling at the good mouth,Quick eyes gone under earth's lid,For two gross of broken statues,For a few thousand battered books.

what thou lovest well is thy true heritage what thou lovest well shall not be reft from thee

And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.

I am an eternal spirit and the things I make are but ephemera, yet I endure: Yea, and the little earth crumbles beneath our feet and we endure.

There is one quality which unites all great and perdurable writers, you don't NEED schools and colleges to keep 'em alive. Put them out of the curriculum, lay them in the dust of libraries, and once in every 80 often a chance reader, unsubsidized and unbribed, will dig them up again, put them in the light again, without asking favours.

I would like to accept C. H.'s book But it would make my own seem so out of date. Heaven will protect The lay reader.

I killed the monsters. That's what fathers do.

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

There is so much that the past can teach us. -The Cripple

But all men die--as anonymously as they had lived, no matter what their achievements. -Istak

None will thank me for this, nor anyone will remember. -Istak

It is what one really owns in the end, a name." -Istak

But like my father, I have not done anything. I could not, because I am me, because I died long ago.

It is easy to forgive a person his faults when he is dead because in death, he atones for his sins somewhat before the eyes of people who are still living and who have yet to add more on the parchment where their sins are listed.