Quotes About Legacy

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.

Every work of art is a culturescape of you, your memories, the moments you spent working, your hopes, energies, and neuroses, the times you live in, and your ambitions. Of the things that are engaging, mysterious, meaningful, resistant over time.

This was, I sometimes thought, the last gift my father gave me. And the best: His death stood out as the supreme-o excuse for fucking up, for being a successful fuck-up.

The old Hollywood I knew is dead. It only exists now in still photographs and a few people's memories." — Olivia de Havilland

Matías, se deja llevar por la nostalgia y comprende, a través del poema escrito por su padre, que más allá de la vida, lo más importante es saber amar y él supo amar, inclusive más allá de sus propias cenizas.

I asked him if he had bothered to have children. He said yes, he had children. I said why if this is the result. He said I beg your pardon. I said if it leads to this, where you're a skin bag full of putrescent failing organs, and time passes quickly, it passes so quickly, and he knew that, then why have kids.

The old man took out an extraordinarily beautiful and elegant handkerchief and gave it to her to dry her tears. It was the sort of handkerchief that one might be content to be judged by if it was all that remained of one after one's death.

That's just how it is with history. You do things and later on when people see what you did, it looks bad.

These things have happened so often that it becomes clear: a man like this did not die because of what he did but because of what he was. We are the ones who have the privilege of having things happen to us because of what we do. Not everyone is so lucky.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. (Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.)

This was the end of Jewish history as a separate

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

roughly the same interior length as the covered wagon that carried Linda's own great-great-great-grandmother across the country more than a century ago.

Saints preserve us,' Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. 'What have we done to our youth?

After all, the head of my family is a dragon.

Every palace needs a foundation, Askeladden. Make sure that yours isn't of human bones.-Hans Peter

would have no chance to leave a better one.

Jessica Day George

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

Take care of her. That is the most important thing." "Auf Wiedersehen." She leaned down to kiss Ania's cheek. "Mach's gut," Ania said, and caught her hand. Make it good -- an old expression her mother had used.

But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.

See what has become of us. As far as I know, only the old Greeks had gods of drinking and the joy of life: Bacchus and Dionysus. Instead of that we have Freud, inferiority complexes and the psychoanalysis. We're afraid of the too great words in love and not afraid of much too great words in politics. A sorry generation!

Beyond this our life did not extend. And of this nothing remains.

No one will understand us – because in front of us there is a generation of men who did, it is true, share the years out here with us, but who already had a bed and a job and who are going back to their old positions, where they will forget all about the war – and behind us, a new generation is growing up, one like we used to be, and that generation will be strangers to us and will push us aside.