Quotes About Legacy

I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

I am the last prophet. A woman?

To die a martyr is to inject blood into the veins of society

I'm going to die and my son farts in my face... what a waste!

The other members of Queen wrote songs – often great songs – but it was Freddie who sold them.

Despite being the Most Likely on a list of The Rock Stars Most Likely to Croak ..., Keith has outlasted ex-bandmates, ex-drug buddies and, so he claims, several of his own doctors. Yet as the man himself observes, Every day of my life is show business. Start him up ...

There are people who say we should make room for younger bands. That's not the way it works. They can make their own room.

Hue had become a city of the dead.

The Americans landed in Vietnam, were killed in Vietnam, and others have continued to come here without having good reasons.

fierce fraternal tradition

Nearly everyone had a father or uncles who had fought in World War II or Korea, or both, and many had grandfathers who had fought in World War I. War was stitched deep in the idea of manhood.

In your love you see only your two selves in the world, but in marriage you are a link in the chain of the generations

History is made by the winners... and written by those with the loudest voices...

Doctor: 'I am not a hero. Robin Hood: 'Well, neither am I, but if we both keep pretending to be, perhaps others will be heroes in our name. Perhaps we will both be stories and may those stories never end.

History is a burden. Stories can make us fly.

I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.

She thought about the men with bows and arrows. They were really here, weren't they, once upon a time. And mammoths and ladies in crinolines and Spitfires overhead. Places remained and time flowed through them like wind through the grass. Right now. This was the future turning into the past. One thing becoming another thing. Like a flame on the end of a match. Wood turning into smoke. If only we could burn brighter. A barn roaring in the night.

And all his molecules were broken down into other molecules and they went into the earth and were eaten by worms and went into the plants and if we go and dig in the same place in 10 years there will be nothing except his skeleton left. And in 1,000 years even his skeleton will be gone. But that is all right because he is a part of the flowers and the apple tree and the hawthorn bush now.

She can feel it all, centuries of habitation, paint over paint over plaster over stone.

How alike they are, she and her mother, these blank sheets on which men have written their stories, the white paper under the words, making all their achievements possible and contributing nothing to the meaning. She

Perhaps the best you could hope for was not to do the same thing to your own children.

Lo que de verdad pasa cuando te mueres es que tu cerebro deja de funcionar y el cuerpo se pudre, ... Todas sus moléculas se descompusieron en otras moléculas y pasaron a la tierra y se las comieron los gusanos y pasaron a las plantas. Si vamos y cavamos al cabo de 1000 años, hasta el esqueleto habrá desaparecido. Pero eso está bien, porque ahora forma parte de las flores y del manzano y del matorral de espino.

In a thousand years, Alessandro said, this incident will be remembered. By then, of course, we will have become angels, devils, or a dragon that breathes fire...but we have given this rock a story that will be passed on. What good is that? It isn't to our advantage, if that's what you mean. However, it's pleasurable to cast a line into the future, no matter how tenuously. You never know, the line may be unbroken all the way to the last judgment.