Heritage Quotes

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies.... Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

— Tell me, Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?
— I don’t know, it’s a business?
— No. That’s because it’s the only thing one leaves behind.

The Intouchables

Philippe Pozzo di Borgo

I've been poor my whole life. So were my parents, their parents before them. It's like a disease... passing from generation to generation, becomes a sickness. That's what it is. Infects every person you know... But not my children. Not anymore. This is theirs now.

All authors are inspired by something someone wrote before them. The first rule for a great novelist is to copy.

La ragazza nella nebbia

Loris Martini

Writers

Reiteration

Interconnection, Relationship

You follow in the tradition that you're handed.

It all begins with the soil, the vine, the grape. The smell of the vineyard. Like inhaling birth. It awakens some... ancestral... some... primordial... anyway, some deeply imprinted... and probably subconscious place in my soul.

This is my resume. This is my body of work. This is my legacy.

[Burr]
Well, the word got around, they said,
«This kid is insane, man»
Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland.
«Get your education, don’t forget from whence you came,
And the world is gonna know your name.
What’s your name, man?»

[Hamilton]
Alexander Hamilton.
My name is Alexander Hamilton.
And there’s a million things I haven’t done,
But just you wait, just you wait...

[Hamilton]
I wanted to do what you did.
Graduate in two, then join the revolution.
He looked at me like I was stupid, I’m not stupid

So how’d you do it?
How’d you graduate so fast?

[Burr]
It was my parents’ dying wish
Before they passed

[Hamilton]
You’re an orphan. Of course! I’m an orphan
God, I wish there was a war!
Then we could prove that we’re worth more
Than anyone bargained for…