Quotes About Legacy

They didn't need to know a thing about me to decide that I had overstayed my time on planet Earth. I

I'll die a meter maid, Dexter.

Of course, there was Lily Anne, the living extension of all that is Me, my DNA shipment into the future. And

I will never get the hours back in my life that I spent covering the Federals, said David Remnick, the team's Washington Post beat writer. I'll be on my deathbed thinking about that.

In terms of the collective memory of the American people, the Korean War is not just forgotten. It was not remembered in the first place…." —HISTORIAN ALLAN MILLETT

Words are the most important thing we have. A few words, one word, can change history.

If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.

James M. Cain (1892–1977) wrote two indisputable masterpieces, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity.

Anthony Boucher (1911–1968) was one of the most remarkable figures ever produced by the mystery genre. And

His best work bore the stamp of John O'Hara and John P. Marquand.

The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.

Challenge every writ, and let it not be said of you, I walked a path but never left an imprint.

To be allowed to pursue a career of his own choosing, and not just be expected to follow in his father's footsteps.

they've even named a building after him," said Dimitri.

We should, of course, look back with pride on our colonial empire, but be willing at the same time to grasp the nettles of opportunity.

She would have made a great teacher, and hundreds of children would have benefited from her wisdom and common sense. The truth is, we lost two generations of men in world wars, and two generations of women who weren't given the chance to take their places.

Best Kept Secret Be Careful What You Wish For Mightier than the Sword Cometh the Hour This Was a Man NOVELS Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less Shall We Tell the President? Kane and Abel The Prodigal Daughter First Among Equals A Matter of Honour As the Crow Flies Honour Among Thieves

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I do have a built-in advantage,' said Giles. 'I am my father's son.

Dead men's words are so much more powerful than those of the living

he continued to think about his father. No son could have asked for a better mentor or friend. When he looked back on his life, all his actions, judgments and decisions were nothing more than pale imitations of his father's.

This is bench number two, and I'll take over bench number one when Old Joey dies, which shouldn't be long now. Mr Watson's got bench number three, so he'll get bench number two when I get bench number one. But I've already warned him he's going to have to wait a long time.

expecting to find good twenty-first-century economic answers in a constitution that dates back to 1789 is unrealistic. The Founding Fathers were clever, to be sure, but the cleverest thing they realized is that Thomas Jefferson's famous aphorism that "the earth belongs to the living" means laws from a premodern age should not blindly bind us today.

We need not presume to shape the distant future; we need only respect the prospects of those newly born today. End