Quotes About Legacy

I don't want to make the same mistakes my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.

Your people have finally fallen into history, he said. The rest of us are already here.

The pieces of glass from a wedding were meant to be saved. If the husband died first, the wife prepared his body for burial by weighting his eyelids with the shards. If the wife died first, it was the husband's job to do this. I wish

Young person worry: What if nothing I do matters? Old person worry: What if everything I do does?

famously, Scots are very interested in their past, real or invented, but who else is?

As Long as we Keep telling stories about people we lost, they'll never go away. (from Bonus features 'Big Hero 6')

I MADE A PROMISE TO MY PARENTS TO PROTECT THIS CITY FROM THE EVIL THAT TOOK THEIR LIVES. IF I AM TO SUCCEED, I MUST BE WILLING TO DEAL OUT — THE PUNISHMENT.

Although history is concerned with the past, it is conducted in the present.

Your success is mandatory, there's someone who has not been born or conceived yet, that's waiting on your story

I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

Politically, kings became figures of no importance. Yet those that survived possessed a quality which politicians can peruse for years and still never acquire. They had the vital attribute of legitimacy because they occupied a role they had never striven for- one, furthermore, which would continue when they and their prime ministers were long gone.

Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

He that troubleth his own house...shall inherit the wind.

Deuteronomy 29:29, "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.

Last night's homer was Willie Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.

Which is the point: the future looks a lot more like the past than you might expect.

My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.