Quotes About Legacy

dishonor is like a scar on a tree, which time, instead of effacing, only helps to enlarge. Mencius

Like a patchwork quilt, I realize now that it's the culmination of small beautiful moments that makes the quilt of our lives so beautiful. And even though we haven't had as much time to create the fabric for the squares of ours, I know without a doubt that I will leave behind an entire quilt of beautiful moments.

2 June 1942. Never forget that the war will be over and that the entire historical side will fade away. Try to create as much as possible: things, debates Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that will interest people in 1952 or 2052.

It's sad," said Lucile, thinking of all the girls whose youth was passing them by in vain: the men were gone, prisoners or dead. The enemy took their place. It was deplorable, but no one would even know in the future. It would be one of those things posterity would never find out, or would refuse to see out of a sense of shame.

But one must do something about the past. It doesn't just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.

You seem to think the past is unreal, a pit full of ghosts. But to me the past is in some ways the most real thing of all, and loyalty to it the most important thing of all.

Things, things, they outlive us and go to scenes that we know nothing of.

He's had a bloody awful childhood. Like I had. Those things get passed on and on.

But people have their own troubles and tend to forget. One is not all that interesting. Even Hitler is being forgotten at last.

I can't quite believe he has actually left this scene, left our lives, wherein he was always so significant!

Moy thought, I shall make no more masks, something is over forever. Anyway, she thought, this time next year I shall probably be dead.

Things which he and she had done and been in years past were having their deep inevitable consequences.

Es rarísimo que por un momento estemos aquí y al siguiente hayamos desaparecido. En un par de generaciones, a nadie le importará una mierda. No seremos más que unos gilipollas con ropas graciosas en fotografías descoloridas que un triste descendiente con demasiado tiempo libre saca del aparador para mirar de vez en cuando.

you were better making history than studying it.

You're nothing but a work-in-progress until that day you fall out of this world into the land ay dead men's trousers.

One day this magnificent charge will go, like vision, hearing, continence, and I hope it's the very last of them to succumb.

Erezia unei genera?ii este ortodoxia genera?iei urm?toare.

Na?i ?e se drugi papa, ali nikad više ne?e biti Boti?elija.

Immortality means being loved by many anonymous people.

He was spilling out a year of his life blood with every convulsive painting that he tore from his vitals. It was not the length of his stay on earth that mattered to him ; it was what he did with the days of his life. For him time would have to be measured by the paintings he poured out, not by the fluttering leaves of a calendar.

Tell me, please,' Van Gogh asked, 'is it justifiable that a person wastes his only life by selling worthless paintings for fools?

What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.

Past glories are poor feeding.

Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one. (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: I love you, Janet.) [They were. -Janet.]