Quotes About Legacy

If history, as by most definitions, begins with writing, then the birth, rise and fall of ancient Mesopotamia occupies a full half of all history.

And that through all the ups and downs, nothing really worthwhile is ever permanently lost, even though its creators may be long forgotten. When, perhaps sooner, perhaps later, our civilization finally lies dying in the gutter, some of us will still be looking, as the ancient Mesopotamians taught us to do, at the stars.

Since thou and those who died with thee for rightHave died, the Present teaches, but in vain!

Shakespeare said only our bad deeds live after us," Victoria, the smart one, said. "The good is oft interred with their bones.

Mortui non mordent

No way. He said if I went to bed with him, he'd name me in his will. So I did it, and now, guess what, he's dead." "Congratulations." "No. Read it! Paragraph seventeen." She thrust the document in front of Steve's eyes, and he read aloud. "'Finally, I promised Ms. Gina Capretto that I would name her in my will. Hello, Gina.

My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.

That was the nature of presents. You kept them in the giver's stead. They were a small part of that person to keep.

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less

It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?

To experience love as claustrophobia. In such a twisted paradigm lies the sick legacy of a lifetime in the closet.

What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history. (In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III')

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I'm not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.

I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.

I feel a connection to the work of the Pictures artists. We have a shared interest in common, everyday images and how they shape reality. But I understand this shared interest as something more than media critique. There's an uncanny emptiness lurking beneath the surface of every glossy image. For me, the legacy of the Pictures Generation is a desire to disrupt the surface illusion of reality and to access another dimension.

The privilege of the living is to misquote the dead.

Was that it? (for my grave stone)

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.

Perhaps he had failed. Perhaps the Order had failed. But both had failed nobly. There was something to that.

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.