Iain Sinclair Quotes

What does legacy mean? I never think or go there.

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!'

I'm very much into legacies.

I didn't even know I had a legacy.

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

I was born in a house where my family lived for 300 years. I was born in the home where my grandfather was born in.

It's good to pass on stories.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get it into. For as long as I'm alive, I'll still be its interpreter.

I want my children and grandchildren to see what I look like now.

I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot of old culture.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

People will not look forward to posterity who are not anxious to look backward to their ancestry

Legacy? I'm a worker in the factory; all we care about is today! A legacy... what a bunch of baloney.

You can't build a future if you don't have a past.

I want to leave something behind. A blueprint. A work ethic. Something that my great-grandkids and their kids and their kids can see: This is where it started. Lineage. Intergenerational wealth. Things that are here forever. All that.

That, for me, is the only real legacy: the idea that one has left a lingering trace in people's memories. In the end, that's all a director can hope to do.