Quotes About Legacy

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I will do the best I can.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

To this day, when men meet me, there's always that movie in the back of their mind.

I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

That when we live no more, We may live ever

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivion's curtains over kings; Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not, Their names without a record are forgot, Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th' dust Nor wit nor gold, nor buildings scape time's rust; But he whose name is graved in the white stone Shall last and shine when all of these are gone.

Yes, to obviate his becoming such a gentleman as his father.

I have no horror of death: if I thought it inevitable I think I could quietly resign myself to the prospect ... But I wish it would please God to spare me not only for Papa's and Charlotte's sakes, but because I long to do some good in the world before I leave it. I have many schemes in my head for future practice -- humble and limited indeed -- but still I should not like them all to come to nothing, and myself to have lived to so little purpose. But God's will be done.

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

All our paths lead to death.

You can not libel the dead, I think, you can only console them.

How important is it to be 'important' as a writer?

I get out of the car to look at it. 1922–1989

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Orthodoxy is our roots, the roots from which our country evolved,

they believe the legacy of the Soviet Union's demise has left men a lot weaker than women

what she calls "Russian fatalism": "It comes from our history, from hundreds of years

Not a bit. I don't hold with all that 'sins of the father' nonsense.

Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder … to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, … these stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever. JOSHUA 4:5

Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your might to all who are to come. PSALM 71:18

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.