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Quotes About Legacy

Thus bad begins and worse remains behind'
~ Javier Marías
Whichever or however, the origin went down, this was the site where Candice made things ultimately happen to the family and made Gray all that he was now and always will be, which seemed like a little longer than forever.  
~ Douglas Rasmussen
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.
~ Dr Samuel Johnson
My name is not Des," he said, his voice rising as he stood up to his full height so that he towered over Lucia. "I am Darth Bane, Dark Lord of the Sith. I feel neither pity nor gratitude nor remorse. And Caleb's daughter must pay for what she did to me.
~ Drew Karpyshyn
I am Revan reborn and before me you are nothing.
~ Drew Karpyshyn
Thot. Está sosteniendo cañas de papiro porque él fue la persona que introdujo la escritura en el mundo. La introducción de la escritura fue algo muy importante, probablemente el acto de mayor influencia que haya ocurrido en este planeta en este ciclo. Logró más cambios en nuestra evolución y conciencia que cualquier otro hecho individual en nuestra historia conocida.
~ Drunvalo Melchizedek
One of the problems, and it's one which is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party are either the children or the grandchildren or the great-grandchildren of the people who wouldn't leave in the first place, and because of all the business about selective breeding and regressive genes and so on, it means that all the people now at the party are either absolutely fanatical partygoers, or gibbering idiots, or, more and more frequently, both.
~ Duglass Adamss
Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
~ Dylan Thomas
That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.
~ E.E. Cummings
Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death
~ E.E. Cummings
And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.
~ E.L. Doctorow
There is great human shame when people die before they are ready. It's as if their living didn't matter at all.
~ E.L. Doctorow
The genome of every human cell has memory. You know what that means? As evolved beings we have in our genes memories of the far past, of long-ago generations, memories of experiences not our own.
~ E.L. Doctorow
There is great human shame when people die before they are ready. It's as if their living didn't matter at all. I
~ E.L. Doctorow
Your father's doing is in you, like his father's was in him, and we can never start new, we take on all the burden: the only thing that grows is trouble, the disasters get bigger, that's all. I
~ E.L. Doctorow
The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Ten years ago, A New Earth was first published. Since that time, the book has been read in forty-four languages by countless people all over the world. The in-depth webinar I did with Oprah Winfrey, during which we explored the main themes of the book, has been watched thirty-five million times. So the question naturally arises: Ten years later—where are we? Is a "new earth
~ Eckhart Tolle
what you do to add to the human existence—that is what matters
~ Eddie Izzard
and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever;
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
And with these thoughts came a realization of how unimportant to the life and happiness of the world is the existence of any one of us. We may be snuffed out without an instant's warning, and for a brief day our friends speak of us with subdued voices. The following morning, while the first worm is busily engaged in testing the construction of our coffin, they are teeing up for the first hole to suffer more acute sorrow over a sliced ball than they did over our, to us, untimely demise.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
monuments of historic achievement
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
shouldn't they? She had given her maiden name
~ Edie Claire
The American classicist Edith Hamilton once described the great works of literature, the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.
~ Edith Hamilton
Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad. Cattle die and kindred die. We also die. But I know one thing that never dies, Judgment on each one dead.
~ Edith Hamilton