Quotes About Legacy

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?

Haylee shook her head as soon as they were gone. "Christ, how can our family be mankind's best hope?

Forget UNIX - it will be gone in 5 years.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.

Don't we all hope to die with a smile on our faces?

My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

They want your sons.""My–? But I don't… ew!

(talking about his father) 230 pounds of nickels in Sears slacks.

I don't want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who died. I want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who left and actually did something with her life. Then died.

I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).

If Elvis Presley had been a bowhunter, he'd probably be alive today.

You might be a redneck if your favorite hunting dog has a bigger tombstone than your grandfather.

Jerry [Garcia] got high and Jerry's dead. I went hunting and I'm still Ted.

Hunting is a family thing for me, and it's a Texas thing. We have a lot of land in Texas that's been in our family for 12 generations.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

[History is] petrified imagination.

The living can assist the imagination of the dead.