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eb07af8 Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime. legacy Ray Bradbury
1798e35 There is no escape--we pay for the violence of our ancestors. life philosophy truth wisdom muad-dib legacy Frank Herbert
bd0986f I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it's never done. nature legacy Ernest Hemingway
7e2fbcb No legacy is so rich as honesty. legacy William Shakespeare
286a506 The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. good death reputation deeds legacy remembrance evil William Shakespeare
8493f94 Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. death legacy soul Ray Bradbury
8792d4f "Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease. I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you think, "They'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion. ... We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can't stop pissing on fire hydrants. I know it's silly and useless--epically useless in my current state--but I am an animal like any other. Hazel is different. She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. Hazel knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either. People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm. The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox. ... But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar. ... What else? She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers." dogs death love fire-hydrant eulogy making-a-difference hurt legacy disease survival choices scars beautiful dying John Green
a4fdc5a "Very good, Jason Grace," Notus said. "You are a son of Jupiter, yet you have chosen your own path- as all the greatest demigods have done before you. You cannot control your parentage, but you choose your legacy." heroism roman legacy self greek hero heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson house-of-hades jason-grace rick-riordan Rick Riordan
38b5245 Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.... legacy manhood Barack Obama
c1acede This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; out of the same man it makes two different phantoms, and the one attacks and punishes the other, the darkness of the despot struggles with the splendor of the captain. Hence a truer measure in the final judgment of the nations. Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form. history kings legacy Victor Hugo
1986ad3 "The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, "They'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion." memories legacy scars John Green
0442b79 On opening night, standing under the Rogers's marquee, [Lin] realized that if Eliza's struggle was the element of Hamilton's story that had inspired him the most, then the show itself was a part of her legacy. eliza eliza-hamilton lin-manuel-miranda hamilton legacy-quotes legacy Jeremy McCarter
f091e65 Originality must compound with inheritance. identity grace-of-god heritage innovation legacy parenthood Harold Bloom
fde1a46 Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing. word-of-god heritage legacy Frank Herbert
3ad241e What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography. resources stewardship legacy Randy Alcorn
84684f5 "The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?" perspective legacy Steven Johnson
d49068d Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it. literature worship heritage legacy Harold Bloom
d07c499 "The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a "partnership" between the present generation and future generations." responsibility legacy Niall Ferguson
f7ac06a Children need fairy tales, but it is just as essential that they have parents who tell them about their own lives, so that they can establish a relationship to the past. identity legacy Mark Kurlansky
5e52bf1 "This was real life, not a book. And in fiction life someday real legacy Danielle Steele
ca791d2 Each person leaves a legacy -- a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole. humanity life legacy John Nichols
6ed9bbd My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought. mortality leadership heritage legacy parenthood Frank Herbert
c08ac07 Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement and bankruptcy of the series of savings banks chartered by the Nation for their especial aid. corruption legacy W.E.B. Du Bois
b9a7abd Men's lives are short . The hard man and his cruelties will be Cursed behind his back and mocked in death. But one whose heart and ways are kind - of him strangers will bear report to the whole wide world, and distant men will praise him. - Penelope in Robert Fitzgerald trans. THE ODYSSEY (364) kindness success penelope meaning-of-life legacy remembrance respect Robert Fitzgerald
e37f92d "When now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes,--two of blacks and three of whites; and in one of the houses of the whites a worthless black boy was harbored too openly two years ago; so he was hanged for rape. And here, too, is the high whitewashed fence of the "stockade," as the county prison is called; the white folks say it is ever full of black criminals,--the black folks say that only colored boys are sent to jail, and they not because they are guilty, but because the State needs criminals to eke out its income by their forced labor." injustice systemic-racism legacy W.E.B. Du Bois
b7378e7 The inventor knows HOW to borrow. heritage evangelism innovation legacy communication Harold Bloom
545cd59 Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self. originally heritage legacy culture Harold Bloom
bfc54e3 Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers. perseverance legacy Harold Bloom
f5a34f9 Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us. literature self-perception conventional-wisdom legacy Harold Bloom
fac1ad8 Since language is the only tool with which writers can reflect and shape a culture, it must be transformed into art. Language is not a limitation on the art of literature; it is a glorification. It has been the scaffolding inside which nations and philosophies have been built, and the language of literature has added the ornamental pediment by which the culture is remembered. literature writing legacy language writers E.L. Konigsburg
f80c234 Stories were heirlooms in these parts. leadership inspiration motivation narrative legacy storytelling parenthood Robert Kurson
18f58a0 "On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or "Middle Passage," as it was called by European slavers, was notorious for the number of deaths incurred, averaging in the vicinity of 15-20 per cent. There were also numerous deaths in Africa between time of capture and time of embarkation, especially in cases where captives had to travel hundreds of miles to the coast. Most important of all (given that warfare was the principal means of obtaining captives) it is necessary to make some estimate of the number of people killed and injured so as to extract the millions who were taken alive and sound. The resultant figure would be many times the millions landed alive outside of Africa, and it is that figure which represents the number of Africans directly removed from the population and labor force of Africa because of the establishment of slave production by Europeans. Pg. 96" loss history development legacy slave-trade europe Walter Rodney
e8929b2 If the Edfu Texts contain a record of these events, as I have proposed, then we should take seriously the message they transmit, that there were survivors of the cataclysm who made it their mission to bring about: 'The resurrection of the former world of the gods. ... The re-creation of a destroyed world.' These survivors are said to have wandered the earth, setting out and building sacred mounds wherever they went, and teaching the fundamentals of civilization, including religion, agriculture, and architecture. re-creation cataclysm mission message legacy resurrection destruction survivors Graham Hancock
8ba95a3 In North America the evidence is that hunter-gatherers bounced back quite successfully within less than a millennium of the onset of the Younger Dryas, and thereafter there is a thin but fairly continuous archaeological record. What is mysterious is not so much the early appearance of mound-building in this new age--perhaps as early as 8,000 years ago, as we've seen--or the sophistication of sites such as Watson Brake 5,500 years ago, nor even their obvious astronomical and geometrical connections to later vast earthworks such as Moundville and Cahokia, but that in this early monumental architecture of the New World memes of geometry, astronomy, and solar alignments consistently appear that are also found in the early monumental architecture of the Old World at iconic sites such as Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid of Giza. A tremendous leap forward in agricultural know-how, coupled with the sudden uptake of eerily distinctive spiritual ideas concerning the afterlife journey of the soul, also often accompanies the architectural memes. It's therefore hard to avoid the impression that some kind of 'package' is involved here. earthworks hunter-gatherers monumental-architecture mound-building younger-dryas archaeology legacy evidence mystery Graham Hancock
b1627e8 What a very odd thing,' said Janie, 'to live and leave no mark. live-life legacy Lauren Willig
8bbf018 I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom. personality legacy patriotism Geraldine Brooks
ce5d336 Traces of the same spiritual concepts and symbolism that enlighten the Egyptian texts are found all around the world among cultures that we can be certain were never in direct contact. Straightforward diffusion from one to the other is therefore not the answer, and 'coincidence' doesn't even begin to account for the level of detail in the similarities. The best explanation, in my view, is that we're looking at a legacy, shared worldwide, passed down from a single, remotely ancient source. cultures contact deep-human-history legacy knowledge symbolism Graham Hancock
0ac2187 "Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Georges Pompidou" leadership heritage perspective legacy popularity Mark Kurlansky
9b44ded If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown. metaphor future past heritage legacy Ursula K. Le Guin
6e069f2 It will be as if we never existed if our history cannot be read. life-quotes legacy writing-down remember memory Minette Walters
4ff4e37 Elsewhere Lankford reiterates that this belief system was by no means confined to the Plains, the Eastern Woodlands, and the Mississippi Valley. It is better understood, he argues, as part of 'a widespread religious pattern' found right across North America and 'more powerful than the tendency towards cultural diversity.' Indeed, what the evidence suggests is the former existence of 'an ancient North American international religion ... a common ethnoastronomy ... and a common mythology. Such a multicultural reality hints provocatively at more common knowledge which lay behind the facade of cultural diversity united by international trade networks. One likely possibility of a conceptual realm in which that common knowledge became focused is mortuary belief [and] ... the symbolism surrounding death. ethnoastronomy origin pattern legacy mythology symbolism Graham Hancock
a61d4ab Not only was the constellation of Orion part of the Moundville story [of Native Americans], not only was a journey to the realm of the dead part of it, too, but now I knew also that a series of trials would have to be faced on that journey, that the Milky Way was involved and, last but by no means least, that Moundville itself had been thought of as an image, or copy, of the realm of the dead on earth. Every one of these were important symbols, concepts, and narratives in the ancient Egyptian funerary texts that I'd been fascinated by for more than 20 years. It would be striking to find even two of them together in a remote and unconnected culture, but for them all to be present in ancient North America in the same way that they were present in ancient Egypt, and serving the same ends, was a significant anomaly. orion narratives symbols realm trials legacy journey Graham Hancock
5c5bd9f The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterprises no one now can understand. heritage legacy materialism Bill Bryson
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