Quotes about Legacy

Properly speaking, a culture does not have a tradition; it is a tradition.

Life in death concerns those who are titled and whose titles, since they are timeless, may not be extinguished by death. Immortality, in this case, is not a reward but the condition necessary to the possession of rewards. Victors live forever not because their souls are unaffected by death but because their titles must not be forgotten.

Any attempt to vary from the past in such a way as to cut the past off, causing it to be forgotten, has little cultural importance.

Cultural deviation does not return us to the past, but continues what was begun and not finished in the past.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilisation that made them.

I'm all for scattering sunshine as we pass. As Stevenson says, we shall pass this way but once--and I devoutly hope he's right.

The memory of a good deed lives.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.

Nothing will ever be as big as 'The Phantom of the Opera' for me.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

I want to have a diploma to hang on my wall. Even if I don't use it, I can say I graduated from UF.