Quotes About Legacy

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. And you had a lot of luck, he told himself, to have had such a good life. You've had just as good a life as grandfather's though not as long. You've had as good a life as any because of these last days. You do not want to complain when you have been so lucky. I wish there was some way to pass on what I've learned, though.

Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal.

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

Half fish, he said. Fish that you were. I am sorry that I went too far out. I ruined us both. But we have killed many sharks, you and I, and ruined many others. How many did you ever kill, old fish? You do not have that spear on your head for nothing.

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

Best of all he loved the fall the leaves yellow on the cottonwoods leaves floating on the trout streams and above the hills the high blue windless skies…now he will be a part of them forever.

The dead do not need to rise. They are a part of the earth now and the earth can never be conquered. For the earth endureth forever. It will outlive all systems of tyranny. Those who have entered it honorably, and no men ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain, already have achieved immortality.

When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

For we have been there in the books and out of the books—and where we go, if we are any good, there you can go as we have been. A country, finally, erodes and the dust blows away, the people all die and none of them were of any importance permanently, except those who practised the arts

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Then as I was getting up to the Closerie des Lilas with the light on my old friend, the statue of Marshal Ney with his sword out and the shadows of the trees on the bronze, and he alone there and nobody behind him and what a fiasco he'd made of Waterloo, I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be and I stopped at the Lilas to keep the statue company and drank a cold beer before going home to the flat over the sawmill.

Your nationality and your politics did not show when you were dead. Robert

Que va," the boy said. "There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only you.

I would like to bear thy son and hy daughter, she told hime. And how can the world be made better if there are no children of us who fight against the fascists?

A thousand years makes economics silly and a work of art endures for ever, but it is very difficult to do and now it is not fashionable.

you could live in the other wonderful world the Russian writers were giving you. At first there were the Russians; then there were all the others. But for a long time there were the Russians.

But neither bull force nor bull courage lasted, she knew now, and what did last? I last, she thought. Yes, I have lasted. But for what?

Amíg egyikünk él, mind a ketten élünk.

When we have just seen the sky full of airplanes of a quantity to kill us back to our grandfathers and forward to all unborn grandsons including all cats, goats and bedbugs. Airplanes making a noise to curdle the milk in your mother's breasts as they pass over darkening the sky and roaring like lions and you ask me to take things seriously. I take them too seriously already.

Nem szívesen távozom a világból, nagyon nem szívesen, de remélem, nem dolgomvégezetlenül megyek. Megtettem mindent ami erÅ'mbÅ'l tellett.