Quotes About Legacy

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. "Hero" isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

Un día estás vivo y arrastrándote por el mundo, y al siguiente te has convertido en un frío fertilizante, en bufé para gusanos. Este es el asombroso milagro de la muerte.

The weakest people alive will try to glorify themselves by tearing down the truly amazing strength of the dead.

The faster the dead could be honored, the faster they could be forgotten.

Cuando hayamos destruido este planeta, Dios nos dará otro. Se nos recordará más por lo que destruimos que por lo que creamos.

Me he pasado la vida atacándolo todo porque me daba demasiado miedo arriesgarme a crear algo... Nunca nada estaba bien —dice mi madre—, o sea que al final de mi vida no me queda nada.

Eventually, when I stepped back inside the parlor door, only my nana's body was left on the sofa. The best of her--her laugh, her stories, even her coughing--was gone.

Don't think of this as extinction. Think of this as downsizing. For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

People accepted the new leaders because people wanted leaders and the former were dead.

Princess Leia's baby, he knows, will have a good life. The best life.

And the lone Jedi that exists—the son of Anakin Skywalker—possesses an untouchable soul. At least for now.

For a long time he's told his son not the truth but the idealized hope: One day the Empire will fall and things will be different for when you have children. And that may still come to pass. But now a stronger, sharper truth is required: "Jak—the battle isn't over. The battle is just starting.

I'm old enough to remember when the Republic shot itself right in the knee. It wasn't taken over by the Empire. It became the Empire slowly, surely, not overnight but over years and decades. Fruit always tastes nice when it's ripe. But it can't stay like that. Every nice piece of fruit will rot on the branch if it hangs there long enough. You remember that.

VADER LIVES.

The Empire's weapon may be destroyed, but the Empire itself lives on.

No clear chain of succession was evident. Palpatine had no family of which to speak, at least as far as anyone knew.

Because we all end up in the dirt at the end.

Maybe that's the problem with generations. You start to forget what it was like when you were like them, so they become your enemy and you become theirs and nobody understands each other. Then you die and they become you and finally, finally they understand, but by then it's too late.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy--they should be about what mark you leave in the world.

Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do and what make it leaves in the world.

fame can be thought of as having four elements: a person, an accomplishment, their immediate publicity, and what posterity makes of them.

It was supposed to say Great Artist on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say such a good teacher/daughter/friend instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is FUCK YOU ALL.