Quotes About Legacy

Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

We come from people who found hope wherever they went.

Some of us come here as shooting stars, to shine brightly for only the briefest moment, and others of us come and overstay our welcome, living to a ripe old age and forgetting our own names.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

Such was the cost of dealing with the Romans: even when one fought against them, the stain of their violence licked and crackled at the soul like a fire about to engulf an entire forest.

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends — and hardly ever our own grown children.

To be somebody, you must last.

It is strange how, once graves are broken and overgrown in this way, then the people in them are truly dead. The Indian Christian graves at the front of the cemetery, which are still kept up by relatives, seem by contrast strangely alive, contemporary

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

Time is different in an ancient place. Not slower, but somehow bigger, perhaps less transient.

Back then, I say, you could have died easily as he, all those frail geniuses died of syphilis or TB.

Some people think we're made of flesh and blood and bones. Scientists say we're made of atoms. But I think we are made of stories. When we die, that's what people remember, the stories of our lives and the stories that we told.

Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.

Nat King Cole - I listen to him a lot.

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

They carved your name into the stone and then they put it in the ground, I run my fingers through the grooves When no one's around

And if you can't go to heaven, May you at least die in Ireland.

Progress! Progress through everybody dying and their kids eventually not caring who their parents hated!

Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. —You (also, Nikola Tesla)

A man should never be measured by his money, his power, or his fame; but rather how he uses that money, power, or fame, to change the world.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.