Quotes About Legacy

Which do you value more, life or honor? Honor,...because everyone must die, but honor lasts forever.

Death in particular seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of innocent amusement than any other single subject.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

You must think it strange that I'm digging up my grandfather." "Not at all. I'm sure many young men dig up their grandfathers.

I kept a picture of me kissing my dad's corpse on the forehead in my wallet for years. I'd break it out any time someone showed me a baby picture, just so they would know how it ends.

All that stuff, tradition and heritage. It's dead people's baggage. Quit carrying it.

But every time an artist dies young, Kurt Cobain or whatever, it's always the people -- "It's so sad, he had so much more to give." How do you know? Maybe he was out of shit. He got all the money, he did all the drugs, he fucked all your holes, and that's the American Dream. And when you're done with that, you go, "Oh, that's why they call it a dream. It's bullshit. I'm still empty.

Don't fucking work hard, dummy, you die at the end! Didn't anyone tell you?

Ali was horrified and enraged when in March of 2001 the Taliban dynamited the stone Buddhas that had stood watch over the town for centuries. What man had the right to write the future by blowing up the past?)

There will come a day," Jared mused, "when people will miss him greatly. He goes for the big thing and he gets it done. Nobody can keep up with the spirit in which he leads.

A game?' Rob spluttered. 'A bloody game?' He turned to face his father. 'This is your bloody fault! I'm living your bloody karma!

Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.

I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end."

If we could live for a million years, then maybe it would be worthwhile to create some problems. But our life is short. Now you see, we are guests here on this planet, visitors who have come for a short time, so we need to use our days wisely, to make our world a little better for everyone.

To every man upon this Earth, death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better, than facing fearful odds. For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods." —Thomas Babington Macaulay, Horatius at the Bridge

We all come from an uninterrupted line of humanity's winners. Like gunfighters in the Old West, just being alive means that you're undefeated.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." —Omar Khayyam

if you have a sandwich at the local deli named after you, you've been somewhat influential. If you have the entire world counting years from the date of your birth, it's safe to say you've had an impact.

Thomas Babington Macaulay,