Quotes About Legacy

If a public figure is willing to accept things as they are, he will avoid being loved or hated very much, and he will die in his bed of old age--if he hasn't had the decency to put an earlier end to his life by committing suicide.

A day is only a day. But a life is only a life.

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

Will our grandchildren enjoy the freedom and prosperity we enjoy, or will they ask us, "Where were you when freedom died?" The choices we make in the next few years—in our personal lives, families, churches, and politics—will determine the answer.

The rise and fall of Tony Montana, and what a way to go out.

Ars longa, vita brevis," she whispered, a quote from Hippocrates. One of her favorites. Life is short, art eternal.

The past is the past. It's now up to us to sustain our own culture. We only lose what we fail to nurture.

that and throughout the Civil War, this single building housed the entirety of the Smithsonian's collections. But where did this shining testament to science get its true start? Oddly enough, it wasn't an American who founded the institution

The monks who taught me," Hugh explained. "They lived in a monastery in that valley, built between two great trees, trees as eternal as the monks themselves. Under one bower the monks sat to meditate. That tree was called the Tree of Enlightenment. Under the other, the monks drank their wine. That tree was called the Tree of Eternal Life.

And once Genghis Khan breached those walls, he did as he had promised. He killed everyone in the city, over a hundred thousand people. But he didn't stop there. It is said he slaughtered every beast of the field, too. It was those dark acts that earned the city the name it bears today." The professor shuddered. "Shahr-e-Gholghola. The City of Screams.

Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark by Sir Laurence Gardner.

Bitter thoughts swept through him. That face had been called many names over the centuries, worn many identities. But after two millennia he had returned to the one his mother had given him. Judas Iscariot.

Remember: what you are, we were. What we are, you will become.

For in this world, one life was enough for any man.

Irenaeus, wrote

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

My old man was eighty-six per cent white bread and a hundred per cent asshole.

There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.

A "skinny kid from Hoboken" named Frank Sinatra helped bring an end to the Irish waterfront's golden age.

There studious let me sit,And hold high converse with the mighty dead.

The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote to the story of our time, and we might as well face the truth that to researchers of the future, poking about among the ruins of time, we shall all be tiny glitters. But then, so are diamonds.

To know [John Quincy Adams] is not to love him. It is, however, to admire him greatly.

For if disaster and oblivion have followed this painting down through time—so too has love.