Quotes About Legacy

Honey, times like this, it helps to think of yourself as a sofa or a newspaper, something made by a lot of other people but not made to last forever.

Most ev­ery­thing else I know is from the mess­es these peo­ple leave be­hind.

The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong

It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do that one wrong thing- and you'll be dead for the rest of your life.

Where would Jesus be if no one ever wrote the gospels?

We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

The most I can ever do is write things down. To remember them. The details. To honor them in some way.

If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create.

Something or someone lived or died so you could have this life. The mountain of the dead. They left you into the daylight.

My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. After college, I called him long distance and said, now what? My dad didn't know.

This is all my identification, my birth certificate, my everything. You can be Shannon McFarland from now on. My career. The ninety-degree attention. It's yours. All of it. Everything. I hope it's enough for you. It's everything I have left.

Imagine there is no God. There is no Heaven or Hell. There is only your son and his son and his son, and the world you leave for them.

do not write to be liked. Write to be remembered.

If you're lis­ten­ing to this, you know that I'm dead.

There's the obituary to look for the next week, six column inches about nothing that really mattered

I just want the days of my life to add up to something. The way every day of your life, the way it can just disappear in front of the television, Denny says he wants a rock to show for each day. Something tangible. Just one thing. A little monument to mark the end of each day.

I just want the days of my life to add up to something. The way every day of your life, the way it can just disappear in front of the television, Denny says he wants a rock to show for each day. Something tangible. Just one thing. A little monument to mark the end of each day... Tombstone isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

Nobody used to look at George Washington, with his wooden teeth, in his powdered wig, and say, Fashion Victim.

That might be the best any generation could achieve: to pioneer its own brand of corruption.

Every family has its scriptures, but most can't articulate them

A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy fo a role you're planning to leave.You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret, you want future critics to say you played the character better.

His name is Robert Paulson and he is forty-eight years old. His name is Robert Paulson, and Robert Paulson will be forty-eight years old, forever.

It's weird how the name outlives the person, the signifier outlasts the signified, the symbol the symbolized.

Din acest motiv copiii copiilor copiilor copiilor nostri vor avea si ei razboaie si foamete si boli. Pentru ca ne iubim suferinta. Ne iubim dramele, dar nu recunoastem niciodata.