Quotes About Legacy

Money isn't everything," Eva said knowingly. "Perhaps you'll die before you can enjoy it." "Perhaps you'll die before you've even lived," Maja countered.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

The past lies like a nightmare upon the present

Great men may make great mistakes;

We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our own modest contribution to it. We must not as for more.

The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their silence is really their call to me, the assurance of their immortal love for me.

She herself had told him that you can never hold onto anything. The harder you try, the more precious things slip through your fingers. The secret to life, she had said, was to find the little things, the unimportant ones that would nonetheless always remind you of the precious things they accompanied—and hold onto them. Like the fine furniture her husband had carved for her, seemingly centuries ago.

The thunder of my heart must go Under the muffling of the dust-- As my grey dress has guarded it The grasses must; For it has hammered loud enough, Clamored enough, when all is said: Only its quiet part shall live When I am dead.

We cannot turn away," Miss Woolf told her, "we must get on with our job and we must bear witness." What did that mean, Ursula wondered. "It means," Miss Woolf said, "that we must remember these people when we are safely in the future." "And if we are killed?" "Then others must remember us .

The past is never over; it is never lost. It circles, as the stones circle, as the stars circle, as the sky circles.

she was fairly good at any kind of housework not demanding brains. Nobody could say why some of Ossian Popham's gifts of mind and conversation had not descended to his children, but though the son was not really stupid at practical work, Lallie Joy was in a perpetual state of coma.

We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.

During those years, Leda and Tyndareus stepped down from their thrones, and Helen and Menelaus became the new queen and king of Sparta. In time, they had a daughter of their own, Hermione.

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

If we do not remember those who have gone before us, we are destined to repeat the same mistakes. We walk blind through time.

It was not how one lived, but how one chose to die.

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2 200 songs. I was amazed.

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It is calculated that George III had an astonishing fifty-six grandchildren. He did not have one legitimate heir. The vision of Charlotte had sustained the people through the direst years of the regency. Without her, all hope seemed gone. From "Becoming Queen Victoria

But just because stories are unwritten for a time, it doesn't mean they'll be unwritten forever. And just because stories don't get written down, it doesn't mean they're ever lost. We carry them in our minds, our hearts, our very bones. We honour them by passing them on, letting them live on in others, too. — foreword by Alicia Elliott