Quotes About Legacy

Death ends a life, not a relationship

You live you die and death not ends it.

I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all come to? More hills bulldozed and more ocean fronts filled in? Faster cars and more cats run over? Who needs it?

Gosensh? 1107 (?shik?chi no Mitsune): "Naturally the person who planted it has grown old ... but how tall the pine is now!

Remember you must die.

Her name and memory, after her death, flitted from mouth to mouth like swallows in summer, and in the winter they were gone.

every man took himself seriously and did not quite believe that the universe had existed before he was born or would long survive his loss. Time

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - Carpe - hear it? – Carpe, Carpe Diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

And then will come the day when the last person who remembers me will die.

On the bottom shelf M. kept the books from his childhood days: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, the Iliad - they are described in The Noise of Time and happened to have been saved by M.'s father. Most of them later perished in Kalinin when I was fleeing from the Germans. The way we have scurried to and fro in the twentieth century, trapped between Hitler and Stalin!

I will love you even when I am dust on the wind.

This was the kind of job that made legends out of hunters. Of course, to be a legend, you generally had to be dead.

Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.

For purely selfish reasons, the old man had preserved what the rest of the world had destroyed.

He knows more about science than we do, and he's a hundred years in the past. He says we depend too much on machines. All we know how to do is press buttons, but he knows how the buttons work.

Nancy Goldstone

These women were not ahead of their time-they were their time. And that legacy-Mary's-endures.

ahí está el padre acurrucado casi para que yo encontrara vida y pudiera existir allí donde no estuvo (de La Cena)

Fathers - half of anyone's life seemed to be about who fathered them.

Ask him: History knocked on your door, did you answer?

Thank you for the time we shared, for the love you gave, for the wisdom you spread. I will always treasure the lessons you taught me. I will carry them with me all the days of my life. I am so proud to be your child. -From A Prayer When a Parent Dies

It's not seemly for a girl, my grandmother tried, but my grandfather snorted. Gold doesn't know the hand that holds it, he said, and frowned at me, but in a pleased way.