Quotes About Legacy

You are too young to understand it.-she said, -but sometimes the bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of--oh,of your faher.

Atticus says that you can't punish the children for the father's faults.

All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess.

I hope the world will little note nor long remember what you are saying here.

The chapter which concerned her began two hundred years ago and was played out in a proud society the bloodiest war and harshest peace in modern history could not destroy, returning, to be played out again on private ground in the twilight of a civilization no wars and no peace could save. Had she insight, could she have pierced

Atticus said one time the reason Aunty's so hipped on the family is because all we've got's background and not a dime to our names.

Entailment's are bad.

the same families married the same families until the members of the community looked faintly alike.

But to die – actually to die – that's an honour only ever granted to the living. The cost of admission.

Blood is our only permanent history, and blood history does not admit of revision

Nothing is allowed to die in a society of storytelling people. It is all-the good and the bad-carted up and brought along from one generation to the next. And everything that is brought along is colored and shaped by those who bring it.

the untold billions who led the bad life as mankind slowly built up the good life for you to lead. Do you ever think of all the people who suffered and died in misery and superstition while civilization was clicking forward one more slow notch?

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.

People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.

History cannot be erased or altered.Because that would mean killing yourself.

Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.

Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me.

S? dÄ© ng??i ta suy nghÄ© má»™t cách nghiêm túc v? chuy?n h? s?ng trên ??i ?? làm gì là b?i h? bi?t má»™t lúc nào Ä'ó mình s? ch?t.

My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart...

They put up with such strenuous training, and where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away, do their thoughts just vanish?

Aunque logres ocultar los recuerdos, o enterrarlos muy hondo, no puedes borrar la Historia. Más vale que se te quede grabado, la Historia no puede borrarse ni alterarse. Porque significaría matarte a ti mismo.

The ones who did it can always rationalize their actions and even forget what they did. They can turn away from things they don't want to see. But the surviving victims can never forget. They can't turn away. Their memories are passed on from parent to child. That's what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.