Quotes About Legacy

If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

If you play your cards right, the next generation will have so much more than you did.

Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives.

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined.

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.

I had a sense then of how if we truly understood how many of the unimportant things we do will end up outliving us, we'd never be able to go on.

All this history...,' Danny says, then trails off. Lost in it. Feeling it connect. Realizing the weight of the world comes largely from its past.

What did Pandora do with her box after she'd unleashed despair into the world? Did she keep it on her mantel as a reminder of what she'd done?

the history is there, but it's not visible.

We were once the ones who were living, and then we were the ones who were dying. We sewed ourselves, a thread's width, into your history.

Hi. I'm Thom. With an 'h'. I tell him, I'm Gnorah. With a 'g'. The 'g' is silent. Like 'gnome.' Really? Thom says. No, not really. I have an 'h' too. At the end. Used to be just N-O-R-A but when I had the H legally added to my name after my dad failed to sign up Norah Jones when he had the chance. I don't like him to forget these things easily.

They kept fighting, even after we were gone. Or especially because we were gone. They kept fighting for us. We are gone and maybe our spirits are gone too, as the ones who knew us stop remembering us so often, or come to join us. But the spirit of that strengh it carries through.

The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.

The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always in your heart.

As the two of us—past self, my present self—hovered over her bed, I could see each cruel damage written across her skin, beneath her eyes, down into her bones. She was no longer the way she wanted to be remembered. She was already more breath than body.

If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. Your memories will be my most lasting impression.

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust

The weight of the world comes largely from its past.

Si hacen las cosas bien, la próxima generación tendrá mucho más de lo que ustedes tuvieron.

Houve uma época em que éramos como vocês, só que nosso mundo não era como o seu. Vocês não fazem ideia do quanto chegaram perto da morte. Uma geração ou duas antes, e vocês talvez estivessem aqui conosco.

That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

I didn't write autobiography. I wrote to leave autobiography behind.

Pervive en nosotros el legado sexual de esas historias de éxito.