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Quotes About Legacy

They've called me a great many things over the years, but my name is Nefarian Serpine.
~ Derek Landy
Have you ever heard of Remnants? - Skulduggery
~ Derek Landy
My dear Stephanie . . ." Stephanie froze. China looked at her. "I've known your name since before I met you, child. Your uncle spoke of you often.
~ Derek Landy
My grandfather believed . . . He believed that we were magic." Stephanie stared at him. "What?" "He said it'd been passed down, this magic, generation to generation. He said we were descendants of a great sorcerer called the Last of the Ancients.
~ Derek Landy
They called us the Dead Men because they said we weren't afraid of dying.
~ Derek Landy
If the world ends, none of that will matter.
~ Derek Landy
Live in the knowledge that you are a gift to the world.
~ Debbie Ford
It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
~ Sylvester Stallone
Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.
~ James Mackintosh
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
~ Francis Bacon
I do not want to bring anything when I die, my knowledge should be shared with this world.
~ Bob Sadino
I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.
~ Gary Gygax
I die with a joyful heart in the knowledge of our infinite achievements and of a contribution unique in the history that bears my name.
~ Adolf Hitler
Everyone has a transferable commodity-knowledge. Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for someone creates a lasting legacy.
~ Marsha Blackburn
Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
~ T.S. Eliot, Selected Essays
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
~ Douglas Coupland
The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance of Art and how the main knowledge of history is through Art alone?
~ Laura Gilpin
The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.
~ John Dryden
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.
~ Rex Hunt
The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.
~ Frances Wright
And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.
~ Duane G. Carey