Quotes About Legacy

For my father John Standish Fforde 1920-2000 Who never knew I was to be published but would have been most proud nonetheless--and not a little surprised.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time. I would give everything to ensure the novel's survival.

Father liked word games. He was fourteen times world Scrabble champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.

Rouge of my heart, intertwined with double-hued destiny, Thread of my thoughts, constant and rubicund legacy, Filament of my future, endeared unto my expectation, Cord of my emotion, seared with eternal elation.

Mi padre decía que Cataluña siempre ha estado en manos de un puñado de familias. Ellos mandaban antes del franquismo, mandaron durante el franquismo, mandan después del franquismo y mandarán cuando tú y yo estemos muertos y enterrados...

si puedes llenar el inexorable minuto, con sesenta segundos que valieron la pena recorrer, tuya es la Tierra y todo lo que hay en ella, y lo que es más: serás un hombre, hijo mío.

un historiador serio y, como tal, un enemigo jurado de la industria de la memoria

Los héroes sólo son héroes cuando se mueren o los matan

Nadie. Nadie se acuerda siquiera de por qué murieron, de por qué no tuvieron mujer e hijos y una habitación con sol; nadie, y, menos que nadie, la gente por la que pelearon.

Pero cuando Miralles muera —pensé—, sus amigos también morirán del todo, porque no habría nadie que se acuerde de ellos para que no mueran.

We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

Yet the past is ever with us and all that we are and that we have comes from the past. We are its products and we live immersed in it. Not to understand it and feel it as something living within us is not to understand the present. To combine it with the present and extend it to the future, to break from it where it cannot be so united, to make of all this the pulsating and vibrating material for thought and action—that is life.

As Isabel Allende said, "You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not." Step

Something your father wouldn't have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No matter how it's done, or how it's justified, it leaves a mark that goes in deep. Be sure you're willing to wear that mark before you take the blood.

The traces of the dinosaurs howl in our memories. Had they been alive we would have exterminated them, but we respect their traces. It is the same with the human race: the more we imperil it, the more meticulously we preserve its remains.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

We only serve as a model to the portrait of our fame

His work kept on living, like the watches on the wrists of dead soldiers. [Said of Marcel Proust]

Their heritage of instability, extravagant caprice, and natural elegance was their paternal portion.

And one day she said to me, 'For the rest of my life, it's the first thing they'll say about me when I leave the room.' And I remember thinking: Yes that's true, it will be. But we can't really do anything about what they say when we leave the room. We'll never be able to control that. And we shouldn't try. Our job is just to...well, be in the room while we're there, and try not to think too much about where we're not. Whatever room we happen to be in, just, be there.

If Sparta and Rome perished, what state can hope to live forever? Hence, if we wish to form a lasting institution, let us not think about making it eternal. In order to succeed we should not attempt the impossible, or flatter ourselves that we are giving the work of men a solidity that does not belong to human things.

One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.

Tiho sam išao ka svom kraju... siguran da ?e poslednji otkucaj mog srca biti utisnut na poslednjoj stranici mog rada i da ?e smrt uzeti samo ve? mrtvog ?oveka.

Mourons : de tant d'horreurs qu'un trépas me délivre. Est-ce un malheur si grand que de cesser de vivre ? La mort aux malheureux ne cause point d'effroi : Je ne crains que le nom que je laisse après moi