Quotes About Legacy

Didn't anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people—perhaps many people—to death, grief, torment?

The Batman must come back." Does he know what he's asking? Bruce wondered. "What if he doesn't exist anymore?" he replied aloud. "He must," Gordon murmured, gasping for breath. "He must.

Where was the line? Between self-transformation so great as to turn a longing for death into childlike wonder … and death itself, and the handing on of the joys and burdens he could no longer shoulder to someone new?

I was recruited by the dead,' Zak said. 'Not in any rush to join them in their silence, but from the urgent need to understand what they might have thought and done that could survive them, that could speak across the ages, that could be continued even now.

Everyone had to carve a life out of the same legacy: half universal, half particular; half sharpened by relentless natural selection, half softened by the freedom of chance.

don't rely on death to be the climax of your stories. Dying isn't interesting. It's what we do while we're dying that matters.

IT WOULD BE tempting to read the story of Fordlandia and Belterra as a parable of arrogance

Remember: King Kong died for your sins.

thought he knew how to begin. "After you kids came along," he told her, "your mother said something I didn't really understand. She said, 'I look at the babies and see myself as they'll remember me.

The road to rock and roll Heaven is paved by the bleached skulls of guys like me. I had no idea such things were nearly impossible.

My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I've got three girls.

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it.

Still, in the larger sense, in a broader sense, it's better to have lived than left, right?

If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs.

hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

Robert Coleman's challenge: "One must decide where he wants his ministry to count—in the momentary applause of popular recognition or in the reproduction of his life in a few chosen ones who will carry on his work after he has gone? Really, it is a question of which generation we are living for.

Every Christian must see themselves as the link to the next generation," writes William Barclay.

YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.

Which matters more? The works I've done or the life I lead?" The minister was right. The words felt different in Evan's body and behind his face. "You assume they're different," the minister said. "One's works and one's life.

Uncle Tom' did not originate in fiction. Nor did he die with the Emancipation proclamation. He is perpetuated and immortalized in the type of leadership that sells the Negro for a few 'sound American dollars.

There is no seed of a god which has perished, neither has he who belongs to him. You will not perish, who belongs to him.

two graves with no grass grown over them yet

Luke I am your father" -Patrick Rain