Quotes About Legacy

One may say without exaggeration that Les Misérables triggered War and Peace.[23] Giants breed giants.

Honor and duty will ride upon my shoulders till the day I die, like the old man of the sea, who once picked up can never be put dow.

you're only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.

After all, you're only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.

Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.

Don't you think I haven't already?' Miriam said wearily. 'I think about it every day, and always I ask myself what Jehoshua would have done . . .

Asked what he thought was the significance of the French Revolution, the Chinese Premier Zhou En-lai is reported to have answered, "It's too soon to tell.

For 1,000 years, Jerusalem was exclusively Jewish; for about 400 years, Christian; for 1,300 years, Islamic; and not one of the three faiths ever gained Jerusalem without the sword, the mangonel or the howitzer.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." --- Edward Gibbon

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. 'Immortality' may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean. G.H. Hardy 23

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that's the best thing I can do in life.

Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.

Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

he felt that his life was nothing more than a light that would blink once in the history of the universe and then be forgotten.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we're not the first to die.

Her dream was to become an artist—to be loved for moments beyond her own life.

Once I fell asleep on the grass and Michel filled my pockets with flowers. Today I am fifteen and I'm taking stock of my life. Even though I want to go to university and eventually buy Michel a red convertible, when I think of those Sundays in the Jardin des Plantes, I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that's the best I can do in life.

history has been recorded by the victors, not the defeated or disenfranchised.

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that's the best I can do in life.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

was the heroic creation of a legion of interested and enthusiastic men and women of wide general knowledge and interest; and it lives on today, just as lives the language of which it rightly claims to be a portrait.

John of Bavaria, realizing the game was up and his throwing in the priesthood and marrying had just wasted everyone's time, made Philip the Good his heir. He was shortly thereafter assassinated in The Hague with a poisoned prayer book (yes, really – nothing can beat the fifteenth century).