Quotes About Legacy

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that's why I made works of art.

Go, my son, fulfill your destiny. You were not made to die on this island.

Mother put on her serious face. "I can't stand idly by and watch the country go down the Swannee. The political arena is the only logical and reasonable course left open to any decent Irish patriot. Besides, last night the cumann nominated me to contest the seat left vacant by the death of Dinny Blackstone who has represented the area in the Dail for twenty years. Who am I to argue?" "Sure he's been dead for at least ten years," Rory said. "It's a wonder that anyone finally noticed.

Time is one of the few things man cannot influence. We all have a desire to create something that will show we were here. That we did something of value. Of course, timeless design is wasted if it cannot survive.

La gravure sur pierres fines a atteint son apogée pendant l'Antiquité. La Renaissance et les Temps moderne n'ont pas égalé, en tout cas pas surpassé les produits anciens qui sont parvenus jusqu'à nous.

The past is a presence between us. In all my mother does and says, the past continually discloses itself in the smallest ways. She sees it directly; I see its shadow. Still, it pulses in my fingertips, feeds on my consciousness. It is a backdrop for each act, each drama of our lives. I have absorbed a sense of what she has suffered, what she has lost, even what her mother endured and handed down. It is my emotional gene map.

Memory for most is a kind of afterlife; for my mother, it is another form of life.

The living take a part of the dead with them, carrying them around in their minds, like a song that lingers after the music has been turned off.

They died, but you must live. To honor their memory, you must live.

The obstinate presence of the past greedily and steadily swallows up the fragile lifetime of men.

L'apogée, la splendeur de l'Islam se situent entre VIIIème et XIIème siècles. Mais la perte très dangereuse de vitesse n'a guère commencé pour lui qu'avec le XVIIIème siècle, c'est-à-dire, à l'échelle lente des civilisations.

PRONTO SE DIRÁ DE VOSOTROS, LO QUE SUELE AHORA DECIRSE DE NOSOTROS: ¡¡MURIERON!! Macabro y trivial. Y cómo se resiste la gente a devolverle al planeta los átomos prestados. De hecho, lo raro y excepcional es estar vivo.

SOON IT WILL BE SAID OF YOU WHAT IS NOW SAID OF US: THEY DIED! Macabre and trivial. And how people fight against returning to the planet the atoms they've borrowed.

PRONTO SE DIRÁ DE VOSOTROS, LO QUE SUELE AHORA DECIRSE DE NOSOTROS: ¡¡MURIERON!!

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

Alfonso Reyes said that one published what he had written in order to avoid spending his life correcting it: one publishes a book in order to leave it behind, one publishes a book in order to forget it.

The history of Argentinian literature should be divided into two periods: before Borges (before 1941) and after Borges (after 1941).

Ley 1 de Colombia: Todo gobernante que se va le deja un desastre aumentado al que llega. Ley 2: Todo gobernante que llega es más bellaco que el que se va.

En 1875 Oscar Hertwig descubrió la fecundación del óvulo por el espermatozoide. Entonces empezamos a saber de dónde veníamos. Ni Sócrates, ni Platón, ni Aristóteles, ni Newton, ni Descartes, ni Kant, ni Mozart, ni Napoleón lo supieron: vivieron y murieron como los santos inocentes, sin saber.

Aquí se arrastran venganzas casadas desde hace generaciones: pasan de padres a hijos, de hijos a nietos, van cayendo los hermanos.

la fugacidad de la vida humana a mi no me inquieta; me inquieta la fugacidad de la muerte: esta prisa que tienen aquí para olvidar. El muerto más importante lo borra el siguiente partido de fútbol…

El Bulli was created by 2,000 people that passed through it. And we didn't know that something big was happening. It was like a game in a way. You didn't really know how it was going to end up, and people who would leave, they would take a piece of it with them, but they would leave another piece behind.

We knew the time would come that we'd have to step down because we'd been winning Oscars for 15 years. I discovered this one day when I got home, my mother was reading a newspaper and she said, 'Again? What are you doing in the papers?' And I realized if my mother thought that of me, what would my enemies think?