Quotes About Legacy

My Dad was overweight and unhealthy, and he died young. I wasn't going to let that happen to me.

I can't die. It would ruin my image.

Three generations of women out on the front porch, four counting little Emily, trying to put words around a past and a future that could never be explained.

do I want to spend my days? How much time do I think I have?" Her expertise

Without ever having met the Dharma, the Buddha's legacy to the world, and without having developed a good heart, everything we do can only be the cause of the lower realms. Our education is solely for this purpose. We go to kindergarten, primary school, high school and then college and university just to create the causes of the lower realms. I don't think I have ever put it this way before.

I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!

Ima take you out ya misery, and after this they gonna put you in the social study book, cuz you history

The miracle of it is this: how little things from such a long time ago can still be remembered as if they had occurred only yesterday.

For each of us, he understood, is born into our own time and eventually the things we held as the center of our world, dearly, unforgivingly, must fade.

Like ginseng roots, our buried pasts have different shapes.

You know when I need to die? When I'm done living. When I can't walk, can't eat, can't see, when I'm a crotchety old bastard, mad at the world. Then I can die.

I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books.

We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.

I know not whether our names will be immortal; I am sure our friendship will.

To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.

Listen, Christ,You did alright in your day, I reckon—But that day's gone now.They ghosted you up a swell story, too,Called it Bible—But it's dead now.

American Heartbreak I am the American heartbreak-- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe-- The great mistake That Jamestown made Long ago.

You hear that, James Carstairs? We are bound, you and I, over the divide of death, down through whatever generations may come. Forever.

I think they'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.

Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.

I am, in the end, what you made me.

You never cared that I was your sister before." "Didn't I?" His black eyes flicked up and down her. "Our father's dead," he said. "There are no other relatives. You and I, we are the last. The last of the Morgensterns. You are the only one left whose blood runs in my veins, too. You are my last chance.

I am a Herondale. We love but once." "That is only a story." "Haven't you heard?" James said bitterly. "All the stories are true.

Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world