Quotes About Legacy

When her last name had still been Voronova

He had just entered the last month of his presidency and was looking very forward to that month ending.

When I finally do leave this world, my epitaph will read, Keke McCoy: Former Jezebel turned journalist for the unsung.

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

It is said that the mother of King George III told him: "George, be king!" and that many of this well-meaning but far from brilliant monarch's troubles stemmed from trying to obey her. Likewise, Susie Lovecraft in effect told her son: "Be a gentleman!" She succeeded in making him into a lifelong snob

You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest

He looked at her then, and she could see he wasn't afraid. "Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten," he said.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.

The greater part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.

When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be preparing reasons for their children for being consoled at their deaths.

He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.

There is no business in this world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.

insan öldü?ünde uzunca bir süre için ölür-

Ladislas Farago

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

Chilo advised, not to speak evil of the dead.

when the victors rewrite history, it's just another kind of war, waged after the battlefield killing is done to murder the memory of the defeated.

Even so,—a million years after we shall have ceased to view the sun,—will the gladness and grief of our own lives pass with richer music into other hearts—there to bestir, for one mysterious moment, some deep and exquisite thrilling of voluptuous pain.

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

What I do, Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be.

On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world.