Quotes About Legacy

Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders' fields.

The father of his country.

The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.

Miguel de Cervantes

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James 1st, James 2nd, and the Old Pretender.

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

Caesar had perished from the world of men Had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

When an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing: it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustrations that it creates.

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

Yes, you may depend upon it he has the ability! He is the younger generation that stands ready to knock at my door - to make an end of Halvard Solness.

O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again...

The memories of events and statesmen paled as the years passed. Dust covered them, mud stained them, until they were finally erased as if they had never been. But recently people had come to understand that forgetting was more difficult and complicated than remembering.

The pyramid is the pillar that holds power aloft. If it wavers,everything collapses.

What the Deuteronomistic historian wanted to say is simple and powerful: there is still a way to regain the glory of the past.

Magic is the accumulated record of psychic and spiritual experience which we have inherited from the past, from former generations of mankind.