Quotes About Legacy

His eyes went again to the crucifix above his head, reflected in the mirror. The strained arms, the arched spine. All that effort to open the gates of heaven for us and we (he thought) probably spend our first hours among the heavenly hosts settling old scores with relatives.

We could never sit at this kitchen table without our terrible and beautiful past and our poems that tell us who we are.

I expect to hear voices forever, even after I'm dead.

I wonder who I will know when I die, if anyone.

I will always have done that; when I die I will have done that; when I'm dead I will remember that I have done that.

And my love. Which is visible here in death . . . it's part of what you're left with when you die.

When my death comes I'll have nearly been the one.

Like doom like fate like familial indebtedness to a past One always saw coming

they lift their faces to the past

When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?

And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.

All his beauty, wit and grace Lie forever in one place, He who sang and sprang and moved Now, in death, is only loved.

One thing is certain: When the time has come, nothing which is man made will subsist. One day, all human accomplishments will be reduced to a pile of ashes. But every single child to whom a woman has given birth will live forever, for he has been given an immortal soul made to God's image and likeness. In this light, the assertion of de Beauvoir that 'women produce nothing' becomes particularly ludicrous.

Our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.

I am here—in the present, standing on the shoulders of all who've paved my way, in awe of where my life has led me.

A death without being a loss to anybody is the most unworthy death.

One dies the way he lives.

Those who know how one should die knew how one should live.

Ze weten het. Die daemondingen. Ze weten hoe ik dieren haat... Dat luipaard. Ik heb er jaren nachtmerries van gehad. Vroeger hield ik van dieren. Zij hielden ervan... pap en mam. Ze wijdden hun leven aan de bescherming van dieren tegen stropers. Na hun dood deed elk dier me aan hen denken.' - Nick 'Ik denk dat ik dat net zo voel. Maar je weet dat het niet de schuld was van dat luipaard.' - Claire

Het meisje met de leeuwengeest! Je werd leider van je volk, en dat ben je tot je dood gebleven... Je bent de moeder van miljoenen mensen. - Leo

Ik heb geen erfgenamen. Ik wil graag dat jij Willowmere erft, Claire. Het is verschrikkelijk duur om te onderhouden, maar met het geld van oom Al kun je het nog een hele tijd volhouden. Dat krijg je natuurlijk ook... Tenslotte, lieve Alice, moeten we het wel in de familie houden. - Myra

The robin brushes me at dusk. Our good bones fail. We leave no mark. His voice, she writes, was clear and quiet. I hear him singing in the dark. ("Edward Thomas' Daughter")