Quotes About Legacy

our children are not for us to keep, but to give away.

For a teller of tales will never die, but will live on in stories - for as long as there are folk to listen.

I know you don't remember her much, Narcisse, but your mother was very strong. Stronger than anyone I've known; strong and sweet as peach liqueur .

eu, prestes a deixar o mundo, sentia um prazer satânico em mofar dele, em persuadir-me que não deixava nada.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.

You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires

When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.

On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.

Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.

And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

I think people assume death is all or nothing. Someone is here, or they're not. But that's not what it's like, is it? The echo of you is still here—in your children or grandchildren; in the art you made while living; in the memories other people have of you.

History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.

Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

When you're tired, sleep. Don't watch stupid tv or play games on your phone. Sleep, and then get up early, and do the stuff you hope you'll be known for after you die.

I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die, I know I lived.

People can easily forget how fast you did your work, but can hardly forget how well you did it.

What a man sows that shall he and his relations reap.

If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, 'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie.'

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.