Quotes About Legacy

On it I read most of Anthony Trollope and all of Edith Wharton, both of whom are dead and can't be written to. Too bad; I'd like to tell them their books are as contemporary as they were when they were written.

If this is one of the last days of my life, am I doing exactly what I want to be doing?

Who was there to write our names, to even know our names and to remember us?

Like he cared about a lot of stupid settlers and Indians and soldiers who hung around out here before he was even born. Hell, before his prehistoric grandparents had been born. Who gave a shit about Crazy Horse and Sitting Bullshit. He cared about X-Men and the box scores.

Being dead didn't make Jack Mercy any less of a son of a bitch

Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.

everyone knows that while we have to go on, we can never, should never, forget.

You're seriously talking about a ghost. This building - or parts of it - has been here for two and a half centuries. It would strike me odder if there wasn't a ghost. Not everything, everyone, leaves.

Pentru asta existau fotografii. Totul se schimb?, aÅŸa c? trebuie s? imortalizezi ceea ce a fost. Înainte ca zua de mâine s? ia totul.

There are countless places absolutely amazing in Ireland, because it respects its history—its long and layered history—and those who came before, what they did, how they lived and died. That's why you can feel them here, if you let yourself, and other places in the world are voids because in those places everything's about what's next, and nobody much cares about what was.

People too often knock down the old for the new instead of understanding that legacy.

It's ridiculous to say not to speak ill of the dead. We're all going to be dead eventually. What would we talk about in the meantime?

She was a fine woman, and lived a good and long life. But it's left to us still living to miss those who aren't.

Don't let anything stop you from going where you need to go, from doing what you need to do. Make your mark on the world, and make it deep so it lasts.

Take a few minutes. No. He's already had more of my time than he was entitled to. Yes, he thought as she walked out of his office. Very much like her grandmother.

Here doesn't lie CIan, for he's blown off with the wind. He lived and he died, then stayed on like the last annoying guest to leave the ball.

He was a hero, and never to be forgotten. And today, as he would want, as must be done, a new leader comes.

You'll be a boon to those grandchildren." "Will I?" "Oh, you will. You'll be patient with them, and sincerely interested in their doings and their thoughts. It's different with a parent, isn't it? They have to consider constantly whether to say yes or no, now or later. They have to discipline and enforce as well as love and tend. You'll only have to love, and they'll soak all that up like sponges.

And because the family business, the industry of

Children give a house its personality, you know, more than its decorating. They leave their mark on it.

it's good for the soul to stop and take a long look now and again at what really lasts.

Some people leave a legacy of goodness behind them.

checkered past. I know about these jewels the same way I