Frank Herbert Quotes

I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.

All of us have a place in history.

Chris didn't only leave a legacy of work. He left a legacy of love.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

We're all stories, in the end.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

The past is more than a memory.

Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.

Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.

Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?

The only great spirit of our time.

I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is - a way of earning the future.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

Government is an art, not a science, and an adventure, not a planned itinerary.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.