Quotes About Legacy

the hospital where he was born must have preserved some record of the event, but Michael didn't

says. "There's only one Moses, but I'm not sure there's a Moses here." But Howard Mudd, who coached the Chargers' offensive line at the time, an

In the months of her slow death, she'd made little notes in a book, jotted down memories of her early life, as if gathering fallen leaves to her chest, to stop them from being scattered and lost by the coming winds.

I am a commercial writer and I'm proud of that. I am writing things to be put in the bookstore next month. I think it is a mistake to try to write for the ages.

When a person becomes aware of their genius and they live it and they give generously from it, they change the world, they affect the world. And when they depart everyone knows something is missing.

I'm not scared of dying. I'm scared of living on and on.

Death is the promise we're all born with, sir. A good death is better than a poor one.

Ah, the world was ever so. How sad are heroes when their tasks are done...

a society dedicated solely to the preservation of her past, soon has only her past to sell.

That the world forgets me is all I ask," Elric sighed.

We could not bring back the Golden Age. Indeed we were now paying the price of having enjoyed one.

Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.

He believed that we live on only as long as our story is told. I believe that too.

Arthur Hobhouse is a happening. I've been a happening for sixty five years, or thereabouts, and the time has come now for me to put my life down on paper. For me this will be the birth certificate I never had. It's to prove to me and to anyone else who reads it that at least I was here, that I happened.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in the process of learning.

Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross.

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead.

When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself.

Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.

There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.

A memoir is the lost inheritance.

if you do not plunder the past, the absence feeds on you

But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.

Nothing lasts. Not even literary or artistic fame protects worldly things around us.