Quotes About Legacy

The Great Man theory lives on as strongly as ever in one field of human endeavour: big business.

We are perforce in some sense constrained, goaded, or at least affected by the accumulated impact of selective decisions made over thousands of generations.

Obama himself may have turned out to be something of a dud, but the cult of presidential personality that has dominated American politics for decades now still persists.

A month after the Watson-Crick structure was published, Britain crowned a new queen and a British expedition conquered Mount Everest on the same day. Apart from a small piece in the News Chronicle, the double helix did not make the newspapers. Today most scientists consider it the most momentous discovery of the century, if not the millennium.

Bizler, miras ald???m?z hücre intihar? mekanizmas?na mahkumuz.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

What would it be like to be lying there listening to your family parceling out a bunch of things you cared enough about to keep for your whole life? There's

Are all our parents, collectively, fucked up? Have they always been fucked up, and it just takes us until our own adulthood to figure that out?

It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that his soul shows itself.

It was as if he were pointing to the various illustrated portraits and photographs on the walls of the firm's past and present. These were the artists who had brought literature to the masses, who had changed minds about politics and prejudices, who had rebuilt bridges between England and America all through the pages of their novels and poems.

The parallel is inescapable: General Scott is Cortés, and General Santa Anna is Montezuma; the two acts of surrender in Mexico City echo, illuminate, and legitimize each other, representing resonant moments in the march of progress that is "American" history.

Naked we're born, naked we'll go, See how the vain are soon brought low. God speed the poor boy on his way, Fear not, we'll meet some other day.

It held an eye to the future and a tongue to the past.

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

Terry Eagleson says his family's aim was to have the words We Were No Trouble engraved on their gravestones.

I live alone, Knud said, and I work alone, but I am never truly alone. I do my ancestor's work. I live the entire history of my country and people.

There is an insatiable appetite for things about the wives of Henry the Eighth. Everyone loves them. Sex and murder.

We all have an innate desire to make a difference, to make an impact, to be seen, to be heard, to leave behind something better than what we're brought into.

This report claims that after the kidnapping and murders, Albert Ellingham rewrote his will, leaving his fortune to anyone who could find his daughter, dead or alive, provided they were not responsible for the crimes.

In our lifetime those who kill the newsworld hands them stardom and these are the ways on which I was raised. —Morrissey, "The Last of the Famous International Playboys

I and they, my chosen friends, my fellow-builders, shall write the firsts chapter in the new history of man

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth—the man who would make his own fortune no matter where he started. If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him. But you look on and you cry that money corrupted him. Did it? Or did he corrupt his money?

Nathaniel Taggart had been a penniless adventurer who had come from somewhere in New England and built a railroad across a continent, in the days of the first steel rails. His railroad still stood; his battle to build it had dissolved into a legend, because people preferred not to understand it or to believe it possible.