Quotes about Legacy

Il passato non è morto e sepolto. In realtà non è neppure passato

But I didn't need to see him because he was there, he would always be there; maybe what Druscilla meant by his dream was not something which he possessed but something which he had bequeathed us which we could never forget, which would even assume the corporeal shape of him whenever any of us, black or white, closed our eyes.

The past is never dead. It's not even past; it's always part of the present.

There now. Just look at what your grandpa did to that poor old nigger." "Yes," I said. "Now he can spend day after day marching in parades. If it hadn't been for my grandfather, he'd have to work like whitefolks.

Addie: My father said that the reason for living is getting ready to stay dead.

the idea (not mine: your great-grandfather's) being that even at eleven a man should already have behind him one year of paying for, assuming responsibility for, the space he occupied, the room he took up, in the world's (Jefferson, Mississippi's, anyway) economy.

the idea (not mine: your great-grandfather's) being that even at eleven a man should already have behind him one year of paying for, assuming responsibility for, the space he occupied, the room he took up, in the world's (Jefferson, Mississippi's, anyway) economy.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.