Quotes About Legacy

Suicide is the dumbest possible way of getting revenge. Why is that? Because the people you want to strike back at are the very same folks who won't even remember you a week after you're gone, while the people you want to spare most -- the people who love you -- are the ones who will have to live with the pain of your suicide for the rest of their lives.

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

And I swear to everything when I leave this earth, its gonna be on both feet never knees in the dirt.

I know you prolly wish you never met me, but I just hope you never forget me.

I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.

these were the experiences I wanted my son to remember. The mother I wanted him to know. The mother I wanted to be.

Other dads actually sat at the dinner table. Mine left me a fifty and a reminder to do my goddamn katas.

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

Glimpses of how it really was before us are rare, if not impossible.

Everyone becomes a genius when they die young.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Henry Clay is dead. His long and eventful life is closed. Our country is prosperous and powerful; but could it have been quite all it has been, and is, and is to be, without Henry Clay? Such a man the times have demanded, and such in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued care of Divine Providence, trusting that in future national emergencies He will not fail to provide us the instruments of safety and security.

Throughout history, parents have tried to name their offspring in a manner that would foretell the trajectory of their future. It's one of the first spells humans encounter in this life. Little did your parents know what would happen today, for you, because of your name, but they blessed this day for you.

If you were dead, would you want your body to decompose and be eaten by worms until it laid scattered in a zillion pieces as worm dung? Or would you rather have a purpose, find meaning in death and help the generations that come after you?

The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.

And in the end, we are all just stories

Without a physical presence on the shelves, the Kindle books seemed slightly insubstantial. There was no equivalent of the satisfying cracked spine. There was nothing to bequeath to the next generation, nothing to sell on to live a new life in someone else's library. But at least the torrent of books that kept arriving had slowed down and there was space to walk up the stairs. I was being freed from the burden of all those bloody books.

The idea that I was building a library to bequeath to the next generation is one of the greatest fallacies of my life. The next generation don't want old books – they don't seem to want books at all.

He just carried on being dead