Quotes About Legacy

It is a measure of true adulthood that we are able to imagine our parents as the people they may have been before us.

Every great work of art has two faces: one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

DB: Well, in a way, this is also the difference of the politician and the statesman, isn't it? A statesman is somebody with a vision. EWS: Somebody like Nehru or Mandela who has the vision and, at the same time, the capacity to carry it out, whatever that might involve … DB:

And, young man," said he, "depend upon it, if you do not go back, wherever you go, you will meet with nothing but disasters and disappointments, till your father's words are fulfilled upon you.

For now I had five children by him: the only work perhaps that fools are good for.

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History is written by the winners

No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!

Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born.

Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born. That's enough.

Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all fixed up better than ever. Test me. Ask me questions. I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I'm a mathematical whiz, and I'm writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I'm gone.

Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born. That's enough.

Dostoevski, Flaubert, Dickens, Hemingway, Faulkner

Its easy to have frends if you let pepul laff at you. Im going to have lots of frends where I go. PPS. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the back yard.

I didn't know what to tell her.I wished I could say that like the House of Atreus or Cadmus we were suffering for the sinesof our forefathers, or fulfilling an ancient Greek oracle.But I had no answer for her, or for myself.

But a son, although he is of his father, cannot know his father totally, because the father precedes him; his father has always already lived so much more than the son has, so that the son can never catch up, can never know everything. No wonder the Greeks thought that few sons are the equals of their fathers; that most fall short, all too few surpass them. It's not about value; it's about knowledge.

Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you.

Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village.

May the forests be with you and with your children.

Man's place is to be the first without being the last . . . . [I]t's man's place to be the teacher of all the rest who are capable of becoming what he's become.

When Jesus departed, he left no one behind who was the message.

What you do is to teach a hundred what I taught you, and inspire each of them to teach a hundred. That's how it's always done.

To each is given its moment in the blaze, its spark to be surrendered to another when it is sent, so that the blaze may go on.

He was a big fish, even then.