Quotes About Legacy

Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day.

Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist.

The first writers I knew about were Motown's Holland-Dozier-Holland.

One of my idols is my dad. All his work in Motown, and just the way he conducted himself as a human being was always interesting to me, and it seemed like the successful way, and it is a successful way, and I always wanted to do that. He's funny, and all that stuff.

I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.

Have we reached the ultimate state of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?

In Winston Churchill's words: We owe London to Rome.34

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years.

He was the complete male in miniature, the tiny acorn from which the mighty oak must grow, the heir of all ages, the inheritor of unfulfilled renown, the child of progress, the darling of the budding Golden Age, and, what's more, Fortune and her Fairies, not content with well-nigh smothering him with their blessings of time and family, saved him up carefully until Progress was rotten-ripe with Glory.

Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial: it is not only the inscriptions on their graves in their own country that mark them out; no, in foreign lands also, not in any visible form but in people's hearts, their memory abides and grows. It is for you to try to be like them. Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

in small moment of time, the climax of their lives, a culmination of glory, not of fear, were swept away from us.

the most splendid of sepulchres – not the sepulchre in which their bodies are laid, but where their glory remains eternal in men's minds, always there on the right occasion to stir others to speech or to action. For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial: it is not only the inscriptions on their graves in their own country that mark them out; no, in foreign lands also, not in any visible form but in people's hearts, their memory abides and grows.

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it.

Phalius son of Eratocleides

Vanità scriverà qui riposa il vecchio Jack.

On the contrary, if grandparents want to make a positive difference in their grandchildren's lives, they must have a plan.

Leaving the world nicer than you found it, making a commitment to a lifetime of learning, paying attention to what you learn from life's experience so that you are more valuable to others, and being committed to developing the potential of as many people as you can are general purposes that are good to install in the hearts of each one of your children.

Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.

She'd say amazing things sometimes. Once you're alive, she'd say, you cant ever be dead.

when you're dead, you just have to be yourself.

Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story. (p 38 "Spin")