Quotes About Legacy

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry, and Porcelaine.

I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land [to] run away or break.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

Thomas—Jefferson—still surv—

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men.

I think life has to get bigger to make death seem smaller.

The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.

out of the following lineage and circumstances: from the seed of the woman (any possible man).

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

What we call the past is built on bits.

Kings imagine they are powerful because they command armies. But in their truest moments, they finally learn who they are. Warriors fight wars, Asura. While kings die weak men.

Ummayad dynasty

I started to write when I was 11 or 12, doing bad imitations of Joyce. There were always white blossoms falling into the grave at the end of every story.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

I think I am becoming my own ghost.

He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in the so-called grand scheme, one unit fewer now. Or not even that, not even an empty space where he once was, for all will rush immediately to fill that vacuum. Pft. Gone. Recollections of him will remain in the minds of others for a while, but presently those others too will die and his few relics with them. And then all will be dark.

Future Farmers of America. Group who take ag classes and are going to inherit the farm. Hot shit around here, they have a couple guys in every clique, and they stick together, 'cause they know they'll be seeing each other every week for the next sixty years.

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

All, or almost all, of the books were complete by the age of Alexander the Great (356–323 BCE).

The tombstone of coinage, arguably the most important measure in history, could read: Born Lydia, Anatolia, 7th century B.C. Died Washington, D.C., 20th century A.D.