Quotes About Legacy

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

This Epistle, is therefore a legacy to the Christians of all ages.

Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

It's a sobering thought: When Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

It is a great privilege to travel alone on the right path knowing at heart that one day millions too will travel on that same road!

I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.

[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met.

I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.

I see all that we have ruined in order to have, all that was owned for a lifetime to be destroyed forever. Where are the sleeps that escape such dreams?

A lifetime's knowledge shimmers on the face of the land in the mind of a person who knows. The history of a place is the mind of an old man or an old woman who knows it.

I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead.

And yet a knowledge is here that tenses the throat as for song: the inheritance of the ones, alive or once alive, who stand behind the ones I have imagined, who took into their minds the troubles of this place, blights of love and race, but saw a good fate here and willingly paid its cost, kept it the best they could, thought of its good, and mourned the good they lost. (From the ending of Where in Clearing, p179)

Grandpa's farm had belonged to our people ever since there had been a farm in that place, or people to own a farm. Grandpa's father had left it to Grandpa and his other sons and daughters. But Grandpa had borrowed money and bought their shares. He had to have it whole hog or none, root hog or die, or he wouldn't have it at all.

It seemed to us that we'd never thought of him before as a man who would die. He never had thought of himself in that way. Until that year, although he'd cursed his weakness and his age, he'd either ignored the idea of his death or had refused to believe in it. He'd only thought of himself as living.

Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.