Quotes About Legacy

There's no one around to answer all my questions now that Ben's gone. It's a stark fact that continually reasserts itself each time I wonder what I'm supposed to do now. That brown robe he wore might as well have been made of pure mystery; he clothed himself in it and then left nothing else behind on the Death Star. I

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Uruk retained a certain importance, but it never recovered its former political power. Its ruins now lie isolated in the deserts of Iraq.

Aunque todo lo demás falle, siempre podemos asegurarnos la inmortalidad cometiendo algún error espectacular.

We incline to see history through the lives of great men. That inclination blinds us to the real complexity …

Why should I care about posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?           attributed to GROUCHO MARX, but also credited to various eighteenth-century English figures

We don't consider any man successful until he has died well.

Here lies one whose name was writ on water.

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.

When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain.

When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high piled books, in charact'ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain … When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be

How long is this posthumous life of mine to last?

This is a mere matter of the moment. I think I shall be among the English poets after my death.

dementia to come forward to capture the financial mind. It is also the time generally required for a new generation to enter the scene, impressed, as had been its predecessors, with its own innovative genius.

Men of genius do not destroy themselves along with so many others and invite such a dismal end.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment. Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over.

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

Before Elvis there was nothing.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

Everybody does die, Orel. That's a fact." "I'll grant you that, but they live first. That's the part that counts. The living part. You can't wait around doing nothing because everybody's going to die. I mean, in a hundred years, we're all dead, right?

Whatever God thought about it, the old dictator's ghost was not so easily exorcized after all.