Quotes About Legacy

But the standouts in the generations immediately preceding Cleopatra's were—for vision, ambition, intellect—universally female.

The Hellenistic Age begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and ends in 30 BC, with the death of Cleopatra. It has been perhaps best defined as a Greek era in which the Greeks played no role.)

the border between the human and divine was fluid for Cleopatra.

Indeed Cleopatra murdered her siblings, but Herod murdered his children.

Octavian died at age seventy-six, at home in his bed, one of the few Roman emperors not murdered by close kin, another Hellenistic legacy. Having ruled for forty-four years—twice as long as Cleopatra—he had plenty of time in which to refashion the events that had brought him to power.

It is not difficult to understand why Caesar became history, Cleopatra a legend.

A well-connected son of the establishment, he strained to find his place, loitering his way toward his future.

Two thousand years of bad press and overheated prose, of film and opera, cannot conceal the fact that Cleopatra was a remarkably capable queen, canny and opportunistic in the extreme, a strategist of the first rank.

Nefertiti is a face without a queen; Cleopatra is a queen without a face.

Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered.

The truth is smudged forever by Roman manhandling. (218)

To restore Cleopatra is as much to salvage the few facts as to peel away the encrusted myth and the hoary propaganda.

Without the character of Samuel Adams," declared John, "the true history of the American Revolution can never be written.

Gibarian belonged to what may well have been the last generation of researchers who had the courage to refer back to the glory days of optimism and were not averse to their own kind of faith, which went beyond the boundaries laid

A largo plazo, el «Imperio español», el primer imperio mundial en el que nunca se ponía el sol, se convirtió en un mero tópico de la historia mundial, un asunto generalmente asumido debido a su larga duración. Pero una historia de expansión que duró más de mil años y que atañe a una parte muy considerable del mundo no es un asunto banal, sino algo realmente extraordinario, uno de los hitos más grandes de la historia universal.

Think [Schindler's List] was about the Holocaust?... That was about success, wasn't it? The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed. ''Schindler's List'' is about 600 who don't. Anything else?

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

Tomorrow he'd see Meg, just as his Luddite ancestor met the hangman.

Who we are takes generations to create and doesn't end with death.

Il passato, come lei sa, è come certi torturati. Duro a morire.

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.

There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm

Times may change; Cynsters never do

EL-FAYOUMY: Do not bait this great man, lady! He presided over the appeal of Attila the Hun when you were nothing more than a cheap shot of whiskey on your great-great-grandfather's first unpaid bar tab! JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Well said!