Quotes About Legacy

History passes the final judgment.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work," he said. "I want to achieve it by not dying." But

Even though it was unnecessary for her to say so, as it was very much water under the bridge, I so appreciated how it underscored that for most human beings, even when we briefly touch up against other lives, we leave our marks on each other. So

They knew that they were there in the Bahamas because their forefathers had been captured and put on ships and transported to a different part of the world. They knew that those ancestors had a history and a culture, and they talked about that history and culture. Through oral history, they retained some of the fragments of who their great-great-grandfathers were, and probably even some surviving words of their language. They

As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.

Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain.

When they die no one will ever know that once they lived.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

As regards being dead, however, one of my main consolations has always been that I have the strongest intention of being an extremely active ghost. Let nobody make any mistake about that.

Vi foraktet ikke de gamle. Tvert imot, vi var dem takknemlige for meget, men først og fremst for deres eksempel. Bare ved sitt avskrekkende eksempel kan en eldre generasjon noensinne øve gavnlig innflytelse på den yngre.

Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller.

Ignite the flares, connect the phones, wind all the clocks; the sun goes rusty like a medal in its box - collect it from the loft. Peg out the stars, replace the bulbs of Jupiter and Mars. A man like that takes something with him when he dies, but he has wept the coins that rested on his eyes, eased out the stopper from the mouthpiece of the cave, exhumed his own white body from the grave.

I've made out a will: I'm leaving myself to the National Health. I'm sure they can use the jellies and tubes and syrups and glues...

Historia naszego ?ycia, a czasem i ?mierci, jest zapisana w ko?ciach.

Je?li zmarli ?yj? dalej, to tylko w naszych umys?ach i sercach.

Our lives, and sometimes deaths, are stories written in bone.

As you are now, so I once was As I am now, so will you be

[Discoveries] are sent to you in strange ways. Grab them while you can. I'll take that as my scientific legacy.

The great citizen, the first-born son of the New World.

Our history has nothing to do with our destiny.

Vooralsnog hebben e-mails niet hetzelfde effect in een verhaal, omdat e-mails niet worden aangetroffen op zolder of onder een losse plank onder de vloer, of in dozen als mensen doodgaan.

being large and rich helps a country win matches, but having a long soccer history helps a lot more.