Legacy Quotes

"There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them." "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world." "We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children" "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." "The past is never dead. It's not even past." "When I was a screenwriter, I was doing the work so that I could keep making a living. I wasn't really thinking, I want to be remembered for writing this movie" "The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins" "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away" "You are remembered for the rules you break" "The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation" "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid" "Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die" "To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark—in a way that you think is important and lasting—that's a life well-lived" "We—the current generation—have a moral responsibility to make the world better for future generations" "I was always dreaming about very powerful people—dictators and things like that. I was just always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years, or even like Jesus, being remembered for thousands of years." "The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow." "The past is never dead It’s not even past" "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years" "If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me nothing to make my friends proud of my memory but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd" "Martyrdom does not end something, it is only a beginning"