Quotes About Legacy

elBulli isn't me. elBulli is the people who have eaten there, the people that have passed through the kitchen, and the people that have written about it. Every person has inserted their little bit of sand, their way of understanding the world, in that place so that it could exist. So they're not disciples or sons -- if they are anything, they're brothers.

The avant-garde has always existed throughout the history of mankind. The good things from the avant-garde last and eventually, after many years, become tradition and people forget they were ever part of the avant-garde. The kitchen is a living discipline, always evolving, and there will always be cutting edge things that over the years, ends up being part of tradition.

What I am most proud of, is that today, I see that the values and spirit of what grew in the kitchen at elBulli are present in so many kitchens and places around the world today.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

History will absolve me.

'Twas founded be th' Puritans to give thanks f'r bein' presarved fr'm th' Indyans, an'… we keep it to give thanks we are presarved fr'm th' Puritans.

Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.

The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans.

Mad gone' may mean literally 'crazy about', but in the context it makes a bad pun on Maud Gonne, the Irish activist—politically and culturally—whom W. B. Yeats, in fact, came to be 'mad gone' on, proposing several times to her, but each time turned down. Yeats, unable to get the mother, eventually proposed to Maud's daughter, Iseult, in 1917.

Europe,' Barnett writes, 'moved on from the Second World War and Britain didn't.' One might go so far as to say that England never got over winning the war.

And Iranians never forget. You can't say my Aunt Jila's name without someone saying, "You mean the one who burned her rice?" That happened before I was born and even I know about it.

Green be the turf above thee,Friend of my better days!None knew thee but to love thee,Nor named thee but to praise.

One of the few, the immortal namesThat were not born to die.

Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only.

Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

The White House is a historical BS factory."

When I am dead and in my head And all my bones are are rotten, Take this book and think of me And mind I'm not forgotten.

Traditions and customs which had lasted for centuries did not die out in a moment.

It sometimes seems to us that some impression of those now dead must be left upon their familiar earthly surroundings. We saw them, on such a day, in such a spot, in such an attitude, smiling - or not smiling - and the impression of the scene is so deeply engraved upon our own hearts that we feel they must have left some more enduring trace, though invisible to mortal eyes.

After her husband died, she went away to live with her eldest son, and the round house shared the fate of Sally's. Where it stood is now a ploughed field. The husband's sacrifices, the wife's romance, are as though they had never been - 'melted into air, into thin air.

For all I had heard about ancestors, I had no wish to be one. The idea of having children so they could have children so they could have children frightened me. It seemed so pointless, like that blissful measure of time in Heaven that so comforted the devout: 'If a bird transferred every grain of sand on every beach, grain by grain, and dropped them in the ocean, that is the beginning of eternity.

My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.

One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.