Quotes About Legacy

In addition, no one today remembered why the war had come about or who, if anyone, had won.

If I die,' she murmured, 'maybe I'll be born again when the Rosen Association stamps out its next unit of my subtype.

This rehearsal will end, the performance will end, the singers will die, eventually the last score of music will be destroyed in one wya or another; finally the name Mozart will vanish, the dust will have won. If not on this planet then another. We can evade it awhile.

Most of it has probably gone into erad by now, but they may have a few terminal typescript manuscripts.

The most horrid sound in the world, that of the once-was: alive in the past, perishing in the present, a corpse made of dust in the future.

And what good was a political strategist who couldn't look ahead to his own death? Without that he would have been merely another Hitler, who didn't want his country to survive him.

I don't expect to live long. So what? I don't want to be around long. Do you? Why? What's in this world?

There should be a monument somewhere, he thought, listing those who died in this. And, worse, those who didn't die. Who had to live on past death.

I'm dead; lay the heavy bread on me.

There is little future, Mike thought, for someone who is dead. There is, usually, only the past.

C-bombs destroyed most of Asia and North America back in the Twentieth Century.

it is always the women who rebuild the civilizations that the men have done their best to destroy

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy, but you need a hell of a sense of humour to handle it.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another's throats. Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

What will survive of us is love. - from A Writer

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time' lasts forever.

Lives had been spent here—people had loved one another and eaten and drunk and laughed and betrayed and been afraid of death—and not a single fragment of that remained. White stones, black shadows.

The News of the World no longer exists. How nice to realise that even the most offensive things will eventually require a footnote to explain what they were.

I am their father.

This rivalry was hundreds of years old, and very deep and satisfying.

Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.

a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases, and beliefs is so unruffled by careful thinking that he isn't as easy to escape from as he seems. Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons. It was our job to love them.