Quotes About Legacy

IT TAKES SOME temerity to publish, in a new edition, a book written more than thirty years ago.

If we ever meet again, Hazel-rah,' said Dandelion, as he took cover in the grass verge, 'we ought to have the makings of the best story ever.' 'And you'll be the chap to tell it,' said Hazel.

Here is    a test to find whether your mission on earth          is finished:                         If you're alive,                            it isn't.

and with these gone from his thought, he lived a long

Ta?iau vienintelis dalykas, kuris lieka svarbus žemiškojo gyvenimo pabaigoje, yra tai, kaip mes myl?jome, kokia buvo m?s? meil?s kokyb?!

He swallowed, aware that his mind was broadcasting echoes of itself, helpless to stop, hypnotized by the grinding, Cyclopean eye of posterity.

We don't bring anything into the world and we sure as shit don't take anything out.

wonder what I would say at his funeral if someone gave me a dose of Pentothal an hour before the services." (chap. 10)

Our names were made for us in another century.

what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed.

You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.

Everyone has a place in history. Mine is clouds.

Remember, when you die, there will still be unfinished business to take care of. And you know what? Someone else will do it for you! Don't waste any more precious moments of your life regretting the inevitable.

You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being ... Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.

If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment—thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations of Jews to pogroms and persecution as 'Christ-killers': did that hereditary sin pass down in the semen too?

What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?

If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment - thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations of Jews to pogroms and persecution as 'Christ-killers': did that hereditary sins pass down in the semen too?

No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch. A body is the genes' way of preserving the genes unaltered.

We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.

We should not seek immortality in reproduction.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Value the future on a timescale longer than your own.

When we die there are two things we can leave behind us: genes and memes.

Some of life must be devoted to living itself; some of life must be devoted to doing something worthwhile with one's life, not just to perpetuating it.