Quotes About Legacy

We have 18 or 19 plays by Euripides, for example, yet he is known to have written almost 100. Only 7 of Aeschylus's 80 remain, while just 7 plays of Sophocles have come down to us out of 120 known titles. Almost every character you come across when reading the Greek myths had a play about them written by one, other, or all three of the great Athenian masters. The loss of so many of their works might be regarded as the greatest Greek tragedy of them all.

But, as the saying had it, old professors never die, they merely lose their faculties.

pollute any happiness or satisfaction he might have enjoyed as king. Consigned to the Dust After many years of peace and prosperity in Thebes, Cadmus and

Writing allows us to listen to the past and speak to the future.

How strange is our mortal zest for fame. Perhaps it is the only way humans can be gods. We achieve immortality not through ambrosia and ichor but through history and reputation.

The land claims what you leave behind.

We all become history at some point, right?

The reality is that the past is a very, very dark place for everybody' – Martin McGuinness, former IRA commander1

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die, I have so much I want to do first

We create history by our observation, rather than history creating us.

I think that when we die we return to dust. But there's a sense in which we live on, in our influence, and in our genes that we pass on to our children. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful.

When you are faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realise that there are lots of things you want to do before your life is over.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Cuando te enfrentas a la posibilidad de una muerte temprana, te das cuenta de que hay muchas cosas que quieres hacer antes de que tu vida termine.

Espero que en el futuro, incluso cuando yo ya no esté, las personas con poder puedan mostrar creatividad, coraje y liderazgo. Dejémosles ponerse al nivel del desafío de los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible, y actuar no por su propio interés sino por el interés común.

Esto no debería preocuparnos demasiado, puesto que para entonces, a menos que tengamos colonias más allá del sistema solar, la humanidad habrá desaparecido hace tiempo, extinguida con la muerte de nuestro Sol.

El pasado nos dice quién somos; sin él, perdemos nuestra identidad.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity - Albert Einstein

Almost there! Those are not words any writer pines to hear. Much more preferable is "masterpiece" or "timeless brilliance" or "it shall live forever.

one octogenarian "grandfather" who still used the rifle with which he had killed the Russians who tried to stop him at the border in the thirties.

Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of our planetary year, are stewards of nothing in the long run.

Bless all the women of this world who nurture our heritage while too many man rush off to kill for ideals that might now be deeply and personally held, but will often be viewed as repugnant by later generations.

about Your kingdom and Your will in my heart, my home, and my generation. In Jesus' name, I pray, amen.

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn't a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.