Quotes About Legacy

I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead,Who living had no roof to shroud his head.

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

All that was worth handing on died with them; the rest, they put into their books.8

A landing place is a famous thing, but it is only enjoyable for a time by any mortal who deserves one at all.

In politics and in his personal life, Thomas Jefferson was a complicated man, but in one thing he was consistent: the wanted the best of everything, for himself and for his country.

Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation.

The generation which commences a revolution can rarely complete it.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

The List is Life.", Schindler's List

Once a story is told, it cannot be called back. Once told, it is loose in the world.

Most of us think that history is the past. It's not. History is the stories we tell about the past. That's all it is. Stories. Such a definition might make the enterprise of history seem neutral. Benign.

Most of us think that history is the past. It's not. History is the stories we tell about the past. That's all it is.

History is the stories we tell about the past.

Le Verrier left the solar system larger than he found it - one both better and less completely understood.

Nothing belongs to us. Everything is something that is rented out. Our very heads are filled with rented ideas passed on from one generation to the next.

I am an offspring of the dead. I am descended from the deceased. I am the progeny of phantoms. My ancestors are the illustrious multitudes of the defunct, grand and innumerable. My lineage is longer than time. My name is written in embalming fluid in the book of death. A noble race is mine.

My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.