Legacy Quotes

"The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope" "If you go to your grave without painting your master piece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it" "I used to want the words “she tried” on my tombstone. Now I want “she did it”" "We are defined not only by what we create but what we refuse to destroy." "The powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse" "I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles" "A writer's job is to give testimony, to bear witness to an age and the legacies of those who inhabit it." "The dead, I think, may be at peace, but we'll live with their wrath forever and have to endure the employment of the living to constantly remind us of it." "Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace I would gladly yield every honor which has been accorded me in war" "The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important." "If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten either write things worth reading or do things worth writing" "To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded " "The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other souls" "Posterity, you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it" "You are what you leave behind."