Quotes About Legacy

In my bones, I know that I am not long for this world.

our Janice is gone, but you're still here, and your first allegiance should never be to the dead.

To you of great faith, I am the product of your wisdom and the guarantor of your immortality.

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

Death is part of life. If you think about it, you were born into a world populated by the dead, because

tomorrow is a slave to yesterday.

If you think about it, you were born into a world populated by the dead, because every one of them will die one day.

Two fine men died during the construction of this building.

I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton's history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception, my monument, my killing ground.

Beneficiary of a seven-figure trust fund, destined to inherit a greater fortune

Tempe, where the unfortunately named Hohokam people ruled so long ago that

When a society erases its past, for whatever reason," she said, "it cannot have a future.

Like her grandfather, she is a knowledge sponge.

He no longer has any doubt that he will pass along what the billions—trillions!—of archaea have installed within him.

Alienated from most of his relatives, Walsh left his entire estate to a questionable charity

Panthea, the daughter of John Kennedy Ching

the dead moon sheds cold light on the dark buildings that stand testament to the folly of the human race.

politicians were tearing down a thousand years of civilization brick by brick but weren't building anything to replace it.

Hideyoshi's

real father, his only father." I was

Live, Katie. Live for me. Live for the girls. Live for us. As long as you live, we'll still live in you.

On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute that my mother gave birth to me.

one of the saddest things in life is to die with the music still inside us. There's tremendous talent in Peter that has been long denied. When I knew him, he was one of the most promising artists in college. His work was praised by staff and students alike. His potential was breathtaking.

He had heard that from others but hadn't recognized the truth until his own father had gone. Maybe if he hadn't been so involved with Angie he would have seen to his father's business affairs sooner and they wouldn't be in this mess now. What did he know about all these legal matters? Darn little. His father had known he was close to death