Quotes About Legacy

everything, in fact, recalled him to me, as though he'd left the whole world to me in his will.

explorers invariably give their names to the places that haunt or kill them.

I remember my mother telling me, when she was in the midst of settling my grandfather's estate, that fifty percent of a person's medical expenses are incurred in the last six months of life. My grandfather's history of himself was distributed even more disproportionately: Ninety percent of everything he ever told me about his life, I heard during its final ten days.

Badass.' My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was nothing he needed ever to sample again.

After I'm gone, write it down. Explain everything. Make it mean something.

If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

I felt cold just thinking about that, just how things come to an end, how death is subsumed in the pull of daily life, how a man or woman dies, and life goes on. There were no irrevocable losses.

Michael Connelly

Lastly, special thanks to Raymond Chandler for inspiring the title of the book. Describing in 1950 the time and place from which he drew his early crime stories, Chandler wrote, "The streets were dark with something more than night." Sometimes they still are.

The mark of a true artist, I believe, is to create something that can live on in another's imagination. Hieronymus Bosch certainly accomplished this.

I read once in a book that it doesn't matter if you're lying beneath a marble tombstone on a hill or at the bottom of an oil sump, when you're dead you're dead.

Charles Mingus at Carnegie Hall

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.

Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.

Animals die, friends die, and I shall die, but one thing never dies, and that is the reputation we leave behind at our death.

Because raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.

Astronauts leave trash on the moon. There is always some proof that scientists were there, making their discoveries. Discovery is always a rape of the natural world. Always.

Actualmente mucha gente piensa que vivimos en un mundo predeterminado que sigue un derrotero fijo y establecido. Las decisiones pasadas nos han legado la polución, la despersonalización y la suciedad urbana; alguien decidió por nosotros y ahora nos enfrentamos a las consecuencias.

Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.

Biography," observed Oscar Wilde, "lends to death a new terror.

This is precisely the kind of critical turnabout that has always frustrated and infuriated architects. No less a figure than Sir Christopher Wren, writing tow hundred years earlier, complained that the peoples of London may despise some eyesore until it is demolished, whereupon by magick the replacement is deemed inferior to the former edifice, now eulogized in high and glowing reference.

If we are gone tomorrow the Earth will not miss us.

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.