Quotes About Legacy

Many of us today owe the few attractive and redeeming features of our existence to the sixties, and Che Guevara personifies that era ... better than anyone (Castaneda 1997:410).

Nada tiene una influencia psicológica más poderosa sobre el entorno y especialmente sobre los hijos que la vida no vivida de los padres». CARL GUSTAV JUNG

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. C. G. JUNG

Mi abuela se marchó antes de que yo aprendiera la lección que enseñaban sus cartas: la supervivencia radica en la cordura, y ésta se encuentra en prestar atención.

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made," he said. "Even after you eat it, it stays with you—always.

To have children is to plant roses, muguets, lavender, lilac, gardenia, stock, peonies, tuberose, hyacinth ...it is to achieve a whole sense,a grand sense one did not priorly know. It is to give one's garden another dimension. Perfume of life itself.

You have to live each hour as if it's your last and each day as if you were immortal. - Kate Sheffield

We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten.

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art's sake: it exists for people's sake.

Religion decays, the icon remains; a narrative is forgotten, yet its representation still magnetizes.

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.

It is better to waste your old age than to do nothing at all with it.

History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island, they had learnt how to deal with history, how to sling it carelessly on your back and stride out across the download with the breeze in your face.

It would be comforting if love were an energy source which continued to glow after our deaths.

Posterity will jump to conclusions: that is its nature.

So, you see, we're a played-out generation. All the best ones went. We were left with the lesser ones. It's always like that in war. That's why it's up to your generation now.' But I don't feel part

So, you see, we're a played-out generation. All the best ones went. We were left with the lesser ones. It's always like that in war. That's why it's up to your generation now.

One small revenge might be to die and show no signs of having died.

It was like a country remembering its history: the past was never just the past, it was what made the present able to live with itself.

He applauded their idealism. And yes, music might be immortal, but composers alas are not.

How do we seize the past? Can we ever do so?

When I first began to write, I laid myself the rule [...] that I should write as if my parents were dead. (Page 108, US edition)