Quotes About Legacy

We all have names we don't know about.

When I hear about some sensational new writer I sort of think, Shut up ... you've got to be around for a long time before you can really say you're a writer. You've got to stand the test of time, which is the only real test there is.

Well, my father [Kingsley Amis] was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it was good that I began when I was young and bold and foolish, otherwise I'd have become too self-conscious and aware of the weight of not having written anything yet.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

We all have names we don't know about.

we are, everyone of us, in arrears to death.

A noisy bed-frame is the last sound many a man has heard. I do not intend to join the august company of deceased fools.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

deeds," Stanley remembered later.

Readers came and went, only the books stayed forever.

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals — the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

He never flinched, he never cringed, but he died as one would wish all Englishmen to die—quietly and undramatically

A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.

Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without.

What would happen to the dream if its dreamer was no more?

The science done by the young Einstein will continue as long as our civilization, but for civilization to survive, we'll need the wisdom of the old Einstein -- humane, global and farseeing. And whatever happens in this uniquely crucial century will resonate into the remote future and perhaps far beyond the Earth, far beyond the Earth

The first thing you should know about the second Bradbury expedition is I lived to tell you about it. That should be obvious since I'm telling you about it, right? But I had a drinking buddy back at the Old Town Tavern in Tycho Under, and practically every one of his stories ended with, "And then I died in the mess.

Pestis eram vivus ... moriens tua mors ero - "Living, I was your plague ... dying, I shall be your death.

Therefore nothing were better for us than soon to be conveyed to the last dance, and covered with shovels.

My father and mother did not think they should have brought a superintendent into the world.

What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief purpose in life, namely, the care of the young?

If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.

Man soll bauen als wollt man ewig leben, und also leben als sollt man morgen sterben. One should build as if one would live forever, and live as though one would die tomorrow.

Simeon was the ancestor of Judas Iscariot;