Quotes About Legacy

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

We must always remember that we are only midwives—if we want praise for progeny we must give birth to our own.

Something that her love had made would still be alive.

The greatest challenge of life is to not die before we die

I will give you a sheath worthy of your sword.

El inconsciente es transgeneracional. Afirmemos esta idea central desde el comienzo: la transmisión es inevitable.

Without Christopher Tolkien, not only would The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings look very different, but so would the face of Tolkien scholarship.

No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not to blame for the actions of our ancestors. We can only try to be the best we can, no matter what our heritage, to strive for a better future for all.

I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true.

Ancestors who had held themselves higher than God, and had been brought lower than man.

La muerte provoca muchos sentimientos pero el olvido no es uno de ellos. La muerte te arrebata la razón, pero los recuerdos y lo que sientes por esa persona, es exclusiva propiedad de quien se queda. Amor, odio o desilusión son sentimientos que no se alejan con la muerte.

My family were from Jamaica.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Captain's log, Stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the Starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man … where no one has gone before." Captain James Kirk Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

More often than not, family stories turn out to be etched in sand rather than granite. Even the parts we think are true—even the parts about ourselves—crumble

It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the world in their own image. ---Carl

Finally, Galileo did not say "And yet it does move" as he left the courtroom. There is no contemporary record of his saying this; the claim first appears in a book about Galileo written over a century later.1

Babbage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention, a machine that would autocorrect his name to cabbage, every single time.

We planted a tree and that one tree made the world better.

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

All Italian cities have ghosts, but Florence's seem to me to be always speaking. As