“My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.”— Jim Henson, consequenceofsound.net
“How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?”— Carson McCullers, amazon.com
“No man is great while he is alive because the last day before his death he might do something that would discount all else of greatness in his career.”— Harry Houdini, harryhoudinicircumstantialevidence.com
“It's worth remembering that seven hundred years later, we don't remember the individuals who built the Belfry or dug the canals; we don't remember their political affiliations or even their nationalistic identities; we remember them as a collective, just as we ourselves will be remembered as a colle…”— John Green, youtube.com
“We have to take notice of the amazing creations of our own age and consider what the greatest cultural legacy would be. The answer, of course, being peace and plenty and equality and awesome.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies.”— Israelmore Ayivor, amazon.com
“The greatest blessing a society can confer on its young is to turn them into the heirs, rather than the orphans, of history. It is also the greatest blessing a society can confer on itself, for heirs rejuvenate the heritage by creatively renewing its legacies. Orphans, by contrast, relate to the pas…”— Robert Pogue Harrison, amazon.com