Quotes About Legacy

Like most Southerners, I visit battlefields. Southerners will visit almost any battlefield anywhere, but we are especially fond of the Civil War scenes because we know who fought where and how they did their fighting.

We also planted trees - it became a hobby, for we had discovered what a satisfaction it can be to watch a tree grow and develop. Sometimes a tree will turn out better than any of a man's children, and a tree will endure - its life will outlast our life.

For me personally and for the entire Fed, Don's retirement was a great loss. He

Properly cared for, a Savile Row suit can be handed down the generations—like gout.

The Founding Fathers were devotees of Cicero and Locke, of the Bible and Aristotle.

Happiness is the pursuit of purpose in our lives. If we have lived with moral purpose, even death becomes less painful.

I liked George W. Bush, but his second term was a disaster area. So was much of his first term. I don't feel the necessity to defend his Iran policy, because it was terrible. Period. Ronald Reagan was not a god. He himself would have said that. Don't follow people. Follow principle.

Ronald Reagan always said that freedom was one generation away from extinction. It looks like we've finally found that generation.

like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die.

the enduring human need to be remembered.

Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, "My mother always said, ' Democracy is the best revenge.' "

Every boy knows he is immortal, but his parents, they are not so sure.

My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!

Abbiamo dei vecchi e dei nuovi conti da regolare: li regoleremo.

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

Don Baldomero hadn't been able to disengage himself from that very Spanish concept, to wit: parents must work so that their children may rest and enjoy themselves.

Toda grandeza acaba: las montañas se desmoronan, y hechas polvo, van al fondo del mar; los imperios se derriban, y hechos pedazos van al fondo de la historia; las glorias se apagan, y apenas dejan chispas en las lejanías de lo pasado; el sol se apagará también, todo es cuestión de tiempo, y no dejará más que una osamenta fría rodando por el espacio.

Considerad que, antes de que nacierais, todo lo que veis arriba existió por miles de siglos, y por miles de siglos existirá después que os muráis. Vivimos sólo un instante

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

the past wastes no time becoming the past, all right.

In his last years, Michelangelo worked on new pietà sculptures—not for any pope, but for his own diversion and probably for his own tomb. His eyesight had never recovered from his torment on the ceiling of the Sistine, and by this point in his life he was almost blind. He was sculpting more by feel than by sight—and yet he persevered, even trying new carving techniques right up until six days before his death.