Quotes About Legacy

He felt that he was leaving behind him his chance of being a certain type of artist. It seemed so much more important to be a certain sort of man.

Celtic you'll live and Celtic you'll die.

Note also in the epilogue that I want to show that Stahr left certain harm behind him just as he left good behind him.

I refuse to dedicate my life to posterity. Surely one owes as much to the current generation as to one's unwanted children. What a fate - to grow rotund and unseemly, to lose my self-love, to think in terms of milk, oatmeal, nurse, diapers. ...Dear dream children, how much more beautiful you are, dazzling little creatures who flutter (all dream children must flutter) on golden, golden wings.

A returned battalion of the National Guard paraded through the streets with open ranks for their dead and then stepped down out of romance forever and sold you things over the counters of local stores.

A precocious mistress of the long look, the sustained smile, the private voice and the delicate touch, devices of generations

I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition….

he considered that he would one day accomplish some quiet subtle thing that the elect would deem worthy and, passing on, would join the dimmer stars in a nebulous, indeterminate heaven half-way between death and immortality.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. After that my own rule is to let everything alone.

A classic, suggested Anthony, is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion…. After

that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition…. Then

Vich Deelish   My heart is in the heart of my son     And my life is in his life surely   A man can be twice young     In the life of his sons only.

On the contrary. When a man speaks he's merely tradition. He has at best a few thousand years back of him. But woman, why, she is the miraculous mouthpiece of posterity.

But for a girl I think she ought to have lots of minor accomplishments and pass them on to her children.

Una cosa es segura, y nada lo es más: los ricos crían riqueza, y los pobres crían... hijos.

Weep not for me but for thy children.

And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

There is no more dangerous gift to posterity than a few cleverly turned platitudes.

A man can be twice young in the life of his sons only.

limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax. His family were enormously

Give me a hero and I'll give you a tragedy.

Oh, blessed are the simple rich, for they inherit the earth!

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead," he suggested. "After that my own rule is to let everything alone.

You can't live forever, you can't live forever.