Quotes About Legacy

I've tried to avoid the rock & roll highway and have taken the scenic route. I think all the guys have been more concerned with the music and the band's legacy than with the commercial aspects of life.

'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill' happens to be my favorite album.

We have to defeat Hillary Clinton, or the country we know will not be the country our children and grandchildren grow up in.

Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.

Hillary Clinton looms over the Democratic Party like Evita from her balcony.

For the longest time, I was Scott Ruffalo's brother. I mean, he was the mayor of Beverly Hills. He was just so beloved there.

Always pass on what you have learned. -Yoda

No," Vader replied calmly. "I am your father." Stunned

The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop.

He never married. But he wrote a good book.

Often in the summer, as I go to or come from the vestry, I sit down for a moment on the turf that covers my old friend Rodgers, and think that this body of mine is everyday moldering away, til it shall fall a heap of dust into it's appointed place. But what is that to me? It is to me the drawing nigh of the fresh morning of life when I shall be young and strong again, glad in the presence of the wise and beloved dead, and unspeakably glad in the presence of God.

For the best men and the weightiest questions are never seen in their time, save by the few.

The golden age, of Scotland, of Anglo-Scottish harmony, and of the Border country, ended when King Alexander III of Scotland fell over a cliff in 1286. Few stumbles—if indeed His Majesty was not pushed—have been more important than that one.

It's not a graveyard, Mr Watson, it's a cemetery.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.

How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?

A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays—when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had one been different?

For the future. For the unborn.

You were the dead; theirs was the future.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Jack London)"He was an adventurer and a man of action as few writers have ever been . . . the excellence of his short stories has been almost forgotten.