Quotes About Legacy

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

I managed the Dodgers for 20 years. It's hard to believe that there are only four guys in the history of baseball who managed the same team for 20 years or more. One was owner of the team, Connie Mack. Another was part owner of the team, John McGraw. Then there was my predecessor, Walter Alston, and me. It's amazing. In the 20 years I managed the Dodgers, 210 managers were fired.

I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.

What tho' the clouds are o'er us? They cannot quench the flame That burns in freemen's bosoms-- 'Tis deathless as his name; Another year, and brightly Shall shine our clouded sun, No shadow o'er our country, The land of Washington.

Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

All three sons believed they had the right ring, but there was no proof they were right. But all three rings were precious and beautiful, because they came from the father, and the father loved all three sons.

I am Isobel née Lacoyo Távora, Isobel of Flood, the Left Hand. My blood is on the devil's Contract, his sigil on my palm.

There is a sense of timelessness when you have lived many years. You forget for a moment that it must all come to an end. That in the future, all that we have done will crumble to dust.

You can't ever really have enough worth that when you're gone, the spot you left won't close over.

Green Hornet being loaded for its final flight. Courtesy of Louis Zamperini

So long, Charley."24 He had coined a phrase that jockeys would use for decades.

Louie, declared dead more than sixty years earlier, would outlive them all.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

Maybe I stepped into the skin my mother left behind, and became the girl my mother had been, the one she still wanted to be. Maybe I was wearing her youth now like an airy scarf, an accessory, all bright nerves and sticky pearls, and maybe that's why she spent so much time staring at me with that wistful look in her eyes. I was wearing something of hers, something she wanted back. It was written all over her face.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

I suppose you have already informed God that you will require at least three sons to ensure the Tremore line?

History's a resource.

How we treat our dead is central to our humanity.

Mitchell Dukore's A Novel Called Heritage.

The wheel spins, the ball bounces, bounces, bounces. Where will it land? Will you get the girl? Will your name be read from stages, the recipient of important prizes? Will your name be remembered? How will it be remembered? Will you be remembered at all? Everything is in the before moment. That's where life is richest, in that moment of possibility and anti- say it, the audience screamed at the screen - pation.

He's resigned himself to the belief that the best a person can do is to make one's life worth dying for.