Quotes About Legacy

There is no adulation for a failed revolutionary, only a sympathy akin to pity or even contempt, not so much because he has failed but because he has lived so long.

The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he is to endure.

What is spoken flies, what is written never dies.

Lincoln is properly remembered as a champion of democracy, but there was a good bit of Otto von Bismarck in him as well.

Asked about his beautiful gold pocket watch, Woody Allen said :"I'm very attached to it, my grandfather sold it to me on his deathbed!"

Your hands are clean. Not stained with blood. You need not carry the blood of your men. Only their memories." Eli

Stewart Granger

It is the dignity with which one goes to his death that is remembered by all, What of life, it comes and goes

I Want To Be Known For My Hits, Not Just My Misses.

You Will Remember Me For Centuries

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

Edmund Burke once described society as a partnership between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. It is difficult to see in the evolving system who will speak for the yet unborn, for the future.

As we walk on the stage of human agency otherwise known as history, we should remember that ours are but bit-parts, to be played only momentarily before we move on. The characters may change but the paradigm remains, every generation being the inheritor of the role of Hamlet, yearning and looking for lost fathers, weary of becoming broken men themselves.

I wonder now… were my tears for Alex and Al and all the others who had gone and who were yet to go? Or was I weeping for myself…and those who would remain?

For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it.

Writers create Houses of the Imagination, from whose doors the generations greet each other.

Por entonces nadie podia imaginar que aquel encuentro fortuito seria el inicio de una historia que habria de trascender generaciones y geografias.

El ser humano y la muerte nunca llegan a conocerse. Nadie asiste a su propio funeral.

Quando c'erano i Viceré, i nostri erano Viceré; adesso che abbiamo il parlamento, lo zio è deputato!

Quiero morirme siendo manantial. Quiero morirme fuera de la mar.

Trasmundo Despedida Si muero. dejad el balcón abierto. El niño come naranjas. (Desde mi balcón lo veo.) El segador siega el trigo. (Desde mi balcón lo siento.) ¡Si muero, dejad el balcón abierto!

Memento Cuando yo me muera enterradme con mi guitarra bajo la arena. Cuando yo me muera, entre los naranjos y la hierbabuena. Cuando yo me muera, enterradme, si queréis, en una veleta. ¡Cuando yo me muera! * * * * *

The stately homes of England!How beautiful they stand,Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land!

Otras veces pienso que si me ha dado por escribir los recuerdos, es porque alguien que está en mí y que sabe más que yo, quiere que escriba los recuerdos porque pronto me iré a morir de no sé qué enfermedad.