Quotes About Legacy

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

19 th century literature is dead in this country

Iris giggles again, and there is no difference, Xavier thinks, between the young woman who met Tony in 1950 and the one calling now; the high-spirited 1950 version is still serving people in the grocery shop, even though the shop no longer stands where it did; somehow, each individual moment goes on existing, somewhere.

From "Rock Star" in Every Lyric Tells A Story. What happens to a rock star When he gets too old to perform When his public has faded Like the strength his voice once had? What happens to a rock star When he's treated like yesterday's news And the only reviews that he gets are ones that are bad?

What can an ex-President of the United States do except get drunk?" (There are other versions of the line that are quite similar.)

The cruel things a mother tells a daughter live until the daughter's dying breath. They often are a daughter's dying breath.

History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.

You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. You shall quench my thirst and I will feed you fruit, though time takes my seed. And when I'm lost and can tell nothing of this earth you will give me hope. And my voice you will always hear. And my hand you will always have. For I will shelter you. And I will comfort you. And even when we are nothing left, not even in death, I will remember you.

and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

Sam Phillips's boys—Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash—were raised on gospel and country music.

Ein Reich ohne Bücher, ist ein verlorenes Reich.

A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?

Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad.

If no one goes to gravesides anymore, if you won't visit me there no more, I might as well have my ashes in a jam jar and be more mobile.

I want my life to mean something!

When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.

TRACKER: It was the year your most excellent King shat his most excellent life out in the most excellent shit pit. INQUEST: Speaking ill of the King is punishable by death in the South Kingdom. TRACKER: He's a corpse, not a king.

You never know when people's dreams are connected to you before you're gone and then there's nothing to do, but watch them die in a different way, slow, limb by limb, system by system.

Better to be with the ancestors than to live bonded to somebody else, who might be kind, who might be cruel, who might even make you master to many slaves of your own, but was still master over you.

You never know when people's dreams are connected to you before you're gone and then there's nothing to do, but watch them die in a different way, slow, limb by limb, system by system. Heart condition, diabetes, slow-killing diseases with slow-sounding names. This is the body going over to death with impatience, one part at a time.

He will live to see them make him a national hero and he will die the only person thinking he had failed. That's what happens when you personify hopes and dreams in one person.

Dust hid blood, but not remembrance.

Heaven is going to be one long, never-ending "The Rest of the Story.