Quotes About Legacy

Sita in the Ramayana is an ex-goddess, a human with traces of her former divinity that the story does not erase but largely ignores, whereas Rama is a god in the making, whose moral imperfections leave traces that future generations will scurry to erase. The two meet in passing, like people standing on adjacent escalators, Rama on the way up, Sita on the way down.

But how golden was the Gupta age even in its prime?

We all live as if we are going to live forever. When you know you won't, life looks different.

Arabs used to produce science and algebra and now we're famous for killing.

In the future, I will have grandchildren who speak Dutch, Swedish, and Spanish. If they don't learn Arabic, they will be strangers to each other. They won't have any traces of where we came from. They won't be Syrian. And I will live in exile and die in exile.

nearing the end of a long teaching career, knowing I am in many ways ordinary yet still striving to count myself heroic.

Avant de penser qu'ils vous aiment ou prennent soin de vous, n'oubliez pas de vous rappeler comment ils ont traité vos ancêtres. Rappelles toi!

Haitians are being punished for being the first black nation that helped and Taught many countries how to get their freedom. Through the years, Haiti is being punished for the liberation of many slaves around the world. Unfortunately, that's why they don't want Haiti to prosper.

My biggest fear is seeing myself in a grave without becoming the President of Haiti one day to save my country.

If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.

Death carries no luggage."

Everything we have is not ours. And it will be inherited by another for a short time."

The future is immortal.

A church begins to die when it says, 'They were just children.

I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.

Our whole religious journey is, at its core, an effort to ensure that the death of the body does not mean annihilation.

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

controversial performance as a corrupt detective in Training Day—would be seen holding the Oscar for best actor, almost four decades after Poitier's

Wesley Crusher will only live on in reruns. I will never get to bring him to life again, and that makes me a little sad. I'd like to try on his spacesuit and his oversized brain one last time and see how they fit now. After I posted that entry, the

that Ruth's power as a player was gone. He was thirty-nine years old and his hard living had caught up with him.

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

Something always dies when the lion feeds – and yet there is meat for those that follow him.

If I have to die, then it's best to do so before I see everything I love, the land, the animals, the people, all of it destroyed.