Quotes About Legacy

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

Death is a very important part of life.

I tell him the Company is the past preying on the future—that we are the future.

The Séance & Science Brigade, which had operated along that coast since the fifties, had been obsessed with the twin lighthouses.

by the time this hold, the doubling and mirroring, has waned as most reigns of terror do, the signs of his hand, his will, will have irrevocably fallen across so many places.

Interferivamo con tutto, non lasciavamo stare nulla [...]. Non potevamo accettare che ci fosse qualcosa di intatto. [...] Non li lasciavamo stare neanche dopo la morte.

Both the Star Wars and Friday the Thirteenth franchises have much to answer for.

It's important to honor your ancestors. Bringing in a piece of furniture or an object you've inherited from a loved one not only honors the person who has passed but also brings the warmth of happy memories into your home.

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.

En lugar de edificar un reino partiendo de los hijos físicos de Abraham, Cristo vino a edificar un reino partiendo de los hijos espirituales de Abraham.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see," which I interpret to mean that looking way back into the past provides much better perspective into the enduring patterns of history. I'd

Made profoundly aware of his mortality, Keynes decided in 1937 to set up a permanent fund that would provide Duncan Grant, now fifty-two, with a regular annual income. Although it had been twenty-five years since Grant and Keynes had been lovers or lived together, their importance to each other had endured.

Quiero sentir que mi vida ha servido para algo más que para ocupar un espacio, respirar oxígeno, consumir productos y generar basura.

Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

And above all else, remember that the end of a movie (or a TV show, or a play, or a book) is never really the end.

She's in because her brother, Hunter, was a god here before he gave up being a counselor to run a surf clinic in Malibu.

Headmistress Flora (the formerly wicked stepmother) is handing over the reins to a new leader:

Did you know I was capable of magic? If you did, why didn't you tell me? Were you ashamed I was born with this power? Scared? Worried about what our people would think? I'll never know. You've taken your secrets to the grave and left me alone to figure things out.

Of course, in a hundred years, no one will remember any of us and our story will be lost in obscurity, but for us, for all these years when we were kids and then grown-ups, when you were young parents and then grandparents, this is the only story that ever mattered, and it was such a marvelous one. The best story I ever imagined.

I want a legacy dripping with human connection, up to its eyeballs in memories and adventures and weathered storms and gladness. I hope to leave a wake of victory, a life of full integrity. I want to say it all, risk it all, own it all.

All this is to say that it's not your fault that you're fucked up. It's your fault if you stay fucked up, but the foundation of your fuckedupedness is something that's been passed down through generations of your family, like a coat of arms or a killer cornbread recipe, or in my case, equating confrontation with heart failure. When

but the foundation of your fuckedupedness is something that's been passed down through generations of your family, like a coat of arms or a killer cornbread recipe, or in my case, equating confrontation with heart failure.

All this is to say that it's not your fault that you're fucked up. It's your fault if you stay fucked up, but the foundation of your fuckedupedness is something that's been passed down through generations of your family, like a coat of arms or a killer cornbread recipe, or in my case, equating confrontation with heart failure.