Quotes About Legacy

They had a house there below Kelsha, one of the old mud-walled jobs, that has long disappeared back into its garden of fuchsia and orange lilies that the mother herself had planted in her first days of marriage, as women do in their gardens, all full of hope.

thought how curious it was how people leave a few traces as they go, that can be looked at and puzzled over, but whether ever properly understood, I doubted.

Design is a legacy of thought.

Bei der Beerdigung ihrer Mutter hatte der Pfaffer gesagt, die Eltern würden erst dann sterben, wenn die Kinder nicht mehr an sie dachten. Er vergaß den umgekehrten Fall zu erwähnen, in dem die Eltern innerlich starben, wenn ihnen nichts weiter als der Gedanke an ihre Kinder blieb.

In a famous essay in Esquire, the master storyteller Tom Wolfe presents Robert Noyce, the charismatic leader of Fairchild's eight traitors, as the father of Silicon Valley.[51] Noyce came from a family of Congregational ministers in Grinnell, Iowa, the very middle of the Midwest, where the land was as flat as the social structure. When Noyce moved out to California, he brought Grinnell with him, "as though sewn into the lining of his coat.

I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.

Mortality is a cause for humility, she said to me. None of us knows when he might be taken, as your blessed father was taken. Death, like birth, comes to us all, regardless of rank or station in life.

What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?

History will judge the invasion of Iraq one of the greatest foreign policy misadventures of all time.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.

Abans que nasquem, hi ha un abisme. Després de morts, hi ha un abisme. La mostra vida és només un gra de sorra a l'oceà indiferent de la infinitud. Intentem almenys que aquest instant no s'enfosqueixi de tristor i d'avorriment! Intentem deixar una esgarrapada a l'escorça terrestre." La maleta, Sergei Dovlatov

The Crown of All Things is here concealed. Only one step is left. But this is a legacy for the strong or the wise— Foma

Cada época lee a sus clásicos de distinta manera. El lector encuentra en ellos los contenidos que le permiten aclarar su presente, resolver sus dilemas, vislumbrar con mayor claridad sus objetivos. Una gran obra trascenderá siempre las intenciones de su autor y las limitaciones de su tiempo

Nothing kills a vampire as quickly as the past.

fearing lest it might seem disrespectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with whom my father had once vowed to castrate.

Every woman before her has been a promise unfulfilled.

Miled having died in Spain, his eight sons, with their mother, Scota, their families and followers, at length set out on their venturous voyage to their Isle of Destiny.

In answer to them, the youth, standing up in the Hall of Heroes, with spear in one hand, and shield in the other, exclaimed: "I care not whether I die to-morrow or next year, if only my deeds live after me.

When Cimbaoth died this able woman took up the reins of government herself, becoming the first Milesian queen of Ireland. But the record above all others by which this distinguished woman lives to fame. is her founding of the ancient and much-storied stronghold — named after her — of Emain Macha, which henceforth, for six hundred years, was to play a most important part in the fortunes of Uladh (Ulster) and of Ireland. Macha's

There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.

Each decade absolutizes its own fashions of thought and action without the least pause and consideration of the fact that a decade later those very fashions and ideas will be buried in the dustbin of history as one turns to a new decade.