Quotes About Legacy

Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.

The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.

It's a sad fact that some people are only remembered once they're dead.

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.

Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

The only figure in history who endures is Jesus.

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

Religion is the way we honour our ancestors' errors.

Whether you lay cold in the ground or warm in an urn the turmoils of life aren't a concern. For some this may be the perfect rhyme except for those you leave behind...