Quotes About Legacy

So many die without our caring, decline to silence in rooms beyond hearing. We honor the dead and abhor the dying. - from the story "De Composition

everyone has fear in them somewhere; fear is part of our inheritance.

I should like someone to remember that there once lived a person named David Berger.

As you get older the questions come down to two or three. How long have I got and what am I gonna do with the time I've got left?

That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and suicide: death itself. For before the white men came to Guinea to strip-mine field hands. ... black people did not die ... the decedent ... took up residence in an afterworld that was in many ways indistinguishable from his former estate.

I pray] that we might not outlive our usefulness.

Misers aren't fun to live with, but they make wonderful ancestors.

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

New is America's oldest tradition.

A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.

Koch was not one for grand plans. He just made constant adjustments. He always used the word 'stewardship' to describe his leadership style. He'd inherited something great and he didn't screw it up. p259

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.

Justice William 0. Douglas once told President Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Any government bureau more than ten years old should be abolished, because after that it becomes more concerned with its image than with its mission.

have wanted to fight so well that I will be immortalized in poetry and song. I have wanted to fight so well that an epic poet will come along and create a poem about me that will be sung forever. That way, I will have undying kleos. People will remember my name after I am dead. I will have reputation and fame. I want to be remembered after my death. I want my name to live on after I die. I want to be remembered as a great warrior who slaughtered many other warriors.

The immortality of the soul is worthless. The only meaningful kind of immortality is kleos.

All mortals need to decide how to live their lives. Warriors believe that since we are mortals and we will die, the best way to live our lives is to fight bravely and gain undying kleos. Maybe we are wrong.

On 2 October 2002, Bowie returned, triumphantly, to the Hammersmith Odeon (now known as the Carling Apollo), a venue whose place in Bowie lore had been guaranteed

The dead guys won't write more symphonies.

Daniel Webster, one of America's most famous statesmen, once said: "If we work on marble, it will perish; if on brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work on immortal souls and imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellowmen, we engrave on those tablets something that will brighten to all eternity.

Deep is the chasm between the centuries, but by bridging it a man may return home.

The passing down of big inheritances is also moving the upper class to the left, since heirs tend to be more liberal than their parents in what might be called "Rockefeller syndrome.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.