Lauren Kate Quotes

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.

We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.

I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.

A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

As you get older, you get more... genealogical.

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

Blue Ivy can say she knows who her great-great-great-great-grandfather is. How many people can say that?

As an artist, I never want to be a moment. I want to be a legacy, and I want my music to touch people for years to come.

Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s.

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

It doesn't hurt to look 75 to 100 years out, That's a gift to future generations.

What matters most is what lasts the longest and families are forever.

The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.

Death will destroy my body, but my creatures will keep on living ever after, in the years to come.

You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.

May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.

My business is, with all my might to serve my own generation; in doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord Jesus tarry... The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.

Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.

A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.