Grant Morrison Quotes

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

To a great leader there is no worthy seed.

Just remember, that whatever your write about me, I was a man.

If you want to know my character, look at the kids I've raised.

I grew up watching Wonder Woman; I grew up watching Batman. I grew up watching George Reeves as Superman.

Maybe this is because I'm a comics historian as much as anything else, but I really have a deep-seated respect for the characters that have been around since before I was born and are probably going to outlive me.

My troubles are many They're deep as a well I swear there ain't no Heaven And I pray there ain't no hell But I'll never know by living only my dying will tell. And when I die and when I'm gone There'll be, one child born And a world to carry on, to carry on.

When you have children, you realize that at the end it's all about passing on, about handing down. The process of letting go, not attachment, but appreciating the beauty and value in the change, the transformation.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.

We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them

If I retire doing the character, I don't think the character has to retire. There will still be caricatures of Elvira. You know, Dracula still works, and he's dead.

I'd known enough flush times and lean ones to understand that money came and went. And that one day I'd also lose my looks, my seemingly boundless energy and maybe the ability to catch the eye of an attractive man and the audacity to Rollerblade. My name would be forgotten. So would bad reviews, and good ones. But loving a child is something that lasts. Long after all the rest is gone, that's what endures.

As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the photographs. And so will be our family itself, our marriage, the children who enriched it and the love that has carried us through so much. All this will be gone. What we hope will remain are these pictures, telling our brief story.

Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.

As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.