Quotes About Legacy

The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: He kept down the cost and set the type right.

This is what was bequeathed us: This earth the beloved left And, leaving, Left to us. No other world But this one: Willows and the river And the factory With its black smokestacks. No other shore, only this bank On which the living gather. No meaning but what we find here. No purpose but what we make. That, and the beloved's clear instructions: Turn me into song; sing me awake.

Clearly, naming the major figures in the tradition had become a tradition in itself.

You may bury my body, down by the highway side Babe, I don't care where you bury my body when I'm dead and gone You may bury my body, ooooo, down by the highway side So my old evil spirit Can get a Greyhound bus, and ride.

Just as Bob Dylan's true audience may be those who came before him, those he's trying not to dishonor when he sings their songs or makes those songs into new ones, it may be his true biography is his inhabiting of other lives.

I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.

All geniuses die young.

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

In a Chicago cafe the other night, an elderly man passed a table. "There goes George," observed an onlooker. "When he was young, he was a handsome guy and had many companies. Left a wife and two kids to starve, and ran off with another woman. And now look at him. Old, broke and very sad." "That's the way-it-goes," nodded Elly Kleinman. "Time wounds all heels.

He [Harpo] loved life and lived it joyously and deeply and that's about as good an epitaph as anyone can have.

Gandhi is an example of a man who grew from being self-centered as he was learning to become a lawyer in England, to becoming more family- and social oriented in South-Africa, where he led a reformation of Indian rights, to becoming determined in helping his nation recover from British rule at which he succeeded in the end with the help of a great many people. At the end of his life Gandhi was increasingly focused on a larger picture, encasing the whole world in his vision of a peaceful future.

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

Es más fácil asumir la muerte cuando uno ha podido llevar a cabo las propias aspiraciones.

C'était aussi pour cette raison que j'avais adoré devenir père. Avoir un enfant est un antidote à cette nostalgie et à cette fraîcheur fanée. Avoir un enfant vous oblige à vous délester d'un passé trop lourd, seule condition pour vous projeter vers demain. Avoir un enfant signifie que son avenir devient plus important que votre passé. Avoir un enfant, c'est être certain que le passé ne triomphera plus jamais sur l'avenir.

Pivot : Homme ou femme pour illustrer un nouveau billet de banque? Fawles : Alexandre Dumas, qui a gagné beaucoup avant de tout perdre, et qui rappelait justement que l'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mauvais maître.

L'art est long, la vie est brève.

that coronation of the team's achievements paradoxically heralded the beginning of the end for Rijkaard's Barcelona, as the first signs of indiscipline became apparent.

anxiety to become good enough for Johan Cruyff to notice us cannot be put into words. Without that desire, none of us would be who we are today.

all of them, no matter how many times they won, carried around one commandment: 'I am in a huge club even in the hard times. I try not to betray the club's principles nor the idea of team play nor the legacy of my predecessors.

dime ¿dónde está el cementerio de aquello que vivimos? ¿Dónde están las caricias de mi madre, los abrazos de mi padre, los besos de mi abuela, las palabras de mi hermano? Gainisg, no pueden simplemente desaparecer. No puede morirse toda la vida al morir. Algo debe quedar en esa bruma impenetrable que es la muerte. Así sean migajas de todo aquello que alguna vez existió.

Prefiero ser conocido por mis grandes fracasos que por mis mediocres éxitos», citaba a uno de sus novelistas favoritos.

I don't think there is life beyond death, I don't. But I do believe that we get this clarity in the last minute of our life. The titles we achieved, the honors we managed, they all vanish. You are left alone with you and your deeds and the things you didn't do. And that moment of clarity gives you either peace or the most tremendous fear, because you finally have no cover, and you finally realize exactly who you are.

And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.

It is the concern of every immigrant that their offspring will grow to embrace their adoptive culture at the expense of their natural heritage.