Quotes About Legacy

I prefer peace, but if trouble must come, let it be in my time that my children may know peace.

When you're dead, the way death got you is just one thing that happened among thousands. You don't care more about that day than any of the others, just because it was the last day. You'll see.

Her mother's voice began to hum to her softly, tunelessly. Jane whispered, "How did you come?" "I'm not out there anymore, Jane. I'm inside you now, and my mother is inside me, and her mother is inside her, all the way back. We're all here, just like those Russian dolls, one inside the other.

You may not have noticed, but men over retirement age seem to have a lot of clothes of an earlier vintage." "Yep," he said. "We're all timing it to wear them out at the moment of death so everything comes out even.

Question asked of Thomas Perry. What is the most important thing that you have learned in your writing experience, so far? "If any writer is going to be remembered after he's gone, it will be for the parts of his work that are absolutely original, and would never have existed if he hadn't written them. So if you're writing a scene that you've read, watched, or heard before, then you're wasting your time and your reader's.

Adam had unleashed a monster into the world.

a guy called Vasili Arkhipov saved the world

Thomas Savage

Thomas Savage

Thomas Savage

The power of Heaven is your legacy," the angel explained weakly. "It is this might that exists within you that will allow you to perform your sacred duties as messenger. It belongs to you—you are its master.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers. Most are worse. But a few are better." —HOMER, The Odyssey.

What was here yesterday would be here tomorrow, and if it wasn't it was no great matter. What mattered was the earth and what it could provide.

In the person of Quanah Parker, an extraordinary man in whom the blood of two strong peoples flowed, the Lone Star and the Comanche Moon at last found common ground.

An estate may be imparted without being impaired.

The more work we do for God, the more willing we shall be to die, and the sweater death will be.

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

I'm awfully interested in how big things begin. You know how it is; you're twenty-one or twenty-two and you make some decisions. . . then whissh! you're seventy. You've been a lawyer for fifty years and that white-haired lady by your side has eaten over 50,000 meals with you. How do such things begin?

ma presto moriremo e ogni ricordo di quei cinque lascerà la terra, e noi stessi saremo amati per qualche tempo ancora e poi dimenticati. Ma l'amore sarà bastato; e tutti gli impulsi dell'amore ritornano all'amore da cui sono venuti. Nemmeno i ricordi sono necessari all'amore. C'è una terra dei vivi e una terra dei morti, e il ponte è l'amore, la sola sopravvivenza, il solo significato".

So - people a thousand years from now...This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.

The growing children are misshapen by those parents who were in various ways warped by the blindness, ignorance, and passions of their own parents; and one's own errors impoverish and cripple one's children? Such is the endless chain of the generations?