Quotes About Legacy

This is a grave. There is no honor here in broken tools and old bones, only in the deeds of our children.

You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve, or the ones you create.

What You Are, You Reproduce

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

THEIR GRANDKIDS MAKE THEM DO IT. This was the case with George Harrison, and it made us all feel very old.

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

Everything passes away - suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the Earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?

You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel.

We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

No, no pensaré en Gil como alguien que murió, ni tampoco pienso así en Jimmy, porque mi mente no va por esos caminos. Le echaré de menos, pero Gil sigue estando vivo en mi recuerdo, como lo está Jimmy, como lo están Trane y Bud y Monk y Bird y Mingus y Red y Paul y Wynton y todo el resto de hijoputas geniales, como Philly Joe, que ya han desaparecido de este mundo. Todos

His life changed history. His courage changed lives.

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree, or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

The death of the child is always a model for the death of the parent. A mother gives birth in order to give life to her child; a child dies in order to shape the death of its father.

Tubman is the subject of more children's books than any other African American historical figure, including Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, her

First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children.

History has failed us, but no matter.

There was more to being something than just blood.

What surprised him was that as he felt closer to death, he felt the terror of death, its very finality. There were so many things he had failed to do. There were even more things he should never have done.

Maybe my life can be significant—not on a grand scale like my brother, but to a few people