Quotes About Legacy

Life is short, death is forever

Grandma Redbird: Honey, you have to move past this. Zoey: How Grandma? Grandma Redbird: By living the life she'd be proud of you for living.

I'm beginning to think that if you're going to have a role model you should probably pick someone who's already dead so they can't disappoint you.

I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

Come on up, boys -I'm dead.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

After the first death, there is no other.

Wales: The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it!

My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.

Johnny. Johnny wanted to run a marathon. He wanted to go mile upon mile, proving his lungs would not give out. Proving he was the man Granddad wanted him to be, proving his strength, though he was so small. His lungs filled with smoke. He has nothing to prove now. There is nothing to run for.

Helen says it alone endures while men and houses perish, and that in the end the world will be a desert of chairs and sofas--just imagine it!--rolling through infinity with no one to sit upon them

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

Houses have their own ways of dying, falling as variously as the generations of men, some with a tragic roar, some quietly, but to an afterlife in the city of ghosts, while from others, and thus was the death of Wickham Place, the spirit slips before the body perishes.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Take me up into your mind once or twice before I die (you know why: just because the eyes of you and me will be full of dirt some day). Quickly take me up into the bright child of your mind.

Great empires require great religions.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

I see it for what is is, now. It is a house built on ashes. Ashes of the life Granddad shared with Gran, ashes of the maple from which the tire swing flew, ashes of the old Victorian house with the porch and the hammock. The new house is built on the grave of all the trophies and symbols of the family: the New Yorker cartoons, the taxidermy, the embroidered pillows, the family portraits.

The song: Our youth is wasted We will not waste it Remember my name 'Cause we made history Na na na na, na na

First grandchild," says Thatcher. "There's never anything to match that feeling.