Quotes About Legacy

As far as Indian artists are concerned, I really like Mohammad Rafi and Sonu Nigam.

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

La mort des parents ne devient définitive que le jour où leur enfants ne sont plus là pour les évoquer. Alors la mémoire de ce qu'ils étaient vraiment s'abolit. Ils survivront, brumeux, dans les souvenirs de leurs petits-enfants, qui ne les auront connus que vieux

Well, Sir, what have we done for them? Have we conquered the country for them from the Indians? Have we cleared it? Have we drained it? Have we made it habitable? What have we done for them? I believe precisely nothing at all, but just keeping watch and ward over their trade, that they should receive nothing but from ourselves, and at our own price.

There is the track my feet have worn By which my fate may find me: From that dim place where I was born Those footprints run behind me.

maybe the greatest thing about The Beatles is that they give you a little bit of light.

Al secondo appuntamento Fulvia gli disse che scriveva benissimo. «Sono... discreto». «Meravigliosamente, ti dico. Sai che farò la prima volta che andrò a Torino? Comprerò un cofanetto per conservarci le tue lettere. Le conserverò tutte e mai nessuno le vedrà. Forse le mie nipoti, quando avranno questa mia età». E lui non poté dir niente, oppresso dall'ombra della terribile possibilità che le nipoti di Fulvia non fossero anche le sue.

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

We may be done with the past but the past is not done with us. Show more Show less

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

When I wrote "God Bless America," they said it was too corny, but it's still around.

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

As a physician, who has been deeply privileged to share the most profound moments of people's lives including their final moments, let me tell you a secret. People facing death don't think about what degrees they have earned, what positions they have held, or how much wealth they have accumulated. At the end, what really matters is who you loved and who loved you. That circle of love is everything, and is a great measure of a past life. It is the gift of greatest worth.

It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.

10 percent of the slaves on such voyages were killed in the insurrections (which totals one hundred thousand deaths, 1500–1867)

historians should be doing, according to some, is condemning them and focusing on the immorality of slavery and the Founders' moral blinders.

why did he not free his slaves?

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

One who has lived through the days of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and the Japanese war lords feels something that a younger generation does not concerning the aberrations that are possible in this world.

Destiny is all, Ravn liked to tell me, destiny is everything. He would even say it in English, "Wyrd biõ ful ãræd.

Why do we fight?" he asked. "Because we were born.

DeVoto himself had clearly concluded, go with your gut and do what you know is right: do whatever you can to make the world a better place for those who come after you.

They tell me the letters I write to you and leave here at this memorial are waking others up to the fact that there is still much pain left, after all these years, from the Vietnam War. But this I know. I would rather to have had you for 21 years, and all the pain that goes with losing you, than never to have had you at all.