Quotes About Legacy

There is an eternity behind and an eternity before, Onion. That little speck at the center, however long, is life. And that is but comparatively a minute, he said. I has done what the Lord has asked me to do in the little time I had. That was my purpose. To hive the colored.

It doesn't matter. They're all dead now, or in Florida," which in her mind is the same as being dead. "I'll never retire to Florida," she vowed. Riding past a graveyard one day, she looked over and remarked, "That's Florida Forever.

Annie's Pa was a hero to me. It was him who held the weight of the thing, had the weight of my people on his shoulders. It was him who left house and home behind for something he believed in.

And you say to yourself, They will remember him. He will make them remember him. He's hollering from the back of the bus of history, just so they'll know who he is. So Vanessa will know him. And Cecil. And Maddy. And Laura. And Helen. And even little Ni Ni and the twins Malcolm and Malik. And in knowing who he is, maybe they will one day know who they are.

There is an eternity behind and an eternity before, Onion. That little speck at the center, however long, is life. And that is but comparatively a minute, he said. I has done what the Lord has asked me to do in the little time I had. That was my purpose. To hive the colored.

In the end, every person's life is a tough act to follow.

Of course, immortality of the soul-- the bare soul, cleansed of any personality traces-- is rarely what is desired in the yearning for immortality... More often what one intends to preserve is a public personage, a permanently veiled selfhood.

We'll all go out together when we go. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go. Oh, how the world will die From great fire in the sky. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go. (Total) Call me old fashioned but I'll take 'She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain' any day.

I've been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn't fall nearly fast enough!"-Iggy

Write about us," Robinson urged. "Tell our story." And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands.

Once a bird kid, always a bird kid. - maximum ride series

I know where The List is-my father has taken me to see it many times. Maybe for just this reason. And I know what it is: The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma. And I know who I am: Daniel, son of Graff, son of Terfdon- The Alien Hunter. No last name, just Daniel X.

How many of us share the stories of our lives with our own children? What a loss to the children if we don't.

Se Souvenir de Moi. Remember Me.

The Kennedy Curse is an idea that endures.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."—A. Sachs

What are we but our stories

The most striking thing about beautiful churches, to me, is that they were mostly designed by people who were inspired by a belief in something larger and more important than themselves, and this is how I try to lead my own life.

We're all on death row, ultimately. Are you so stupid that don't see that? Sure, you kids in here, as enemies of the system, will assuredly die earlier than most. As well you should. But all of us everywhere have a one-way ticket to death.

Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates.

So, let me get this right...the big whoop about being human is that you get to die?

Holy Name had been such a big part of my life that sometimes I took the church and school for granted. Not only were my children going to school here, where we attended services every Sunday, but the church was also essentially harboring my grandfather and giving him a strong purpose late in life. The idea of Seamus living with us as a retired bar owner with no purpose in life was the stuff of nightmares.

I thank God for you every single day of my life, Alex, and I thank him for letting me raise you, and see you turn into the man you did. But I want you to think about why you came to me in the first place, what was going on between your poor parents before they died. Simply put, Jannie and Damon and Ali deserve better than you had. ...Don't make them orphans, Alex.

I'm the first of us to go. Don't you dare argue with me. ~ Nana Mama