Quotes About Legacy

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

After you die, you wear what you are.

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

Whether or not we feel proud of the way we have lived will hinge mainly on our marriage and our parenting.

Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.

Before a small, unknown Methodist college was transformed into Duke University in the late 1920s, the city of Durham had been a backwater, known mostly for minor league baseball and cigarettes.

Good-by, then, old friend. . . . in that wider world of being of which this little Cambridge world of ours forms so infinitesimal a part, we may be sure that all our spirits and their missions here will continue in some way to be represented, and that ancient human loves will never lose their own.

your body may lie in a far off land or under a stormy sea .Your soul it rose to be with God to a place we cannot see. YOUR sprit (MACE) roams in this land from sea to glimmering sea. BUT YOUR HEART WILL ALLWAYS BE HERE AT HOME WITH THOSE YOU (MACE) YOU GAVE ALL TO BE FREE. MY DAD' S SHIP WAS HIT 5 TIMES IN WWII HE IS WITH MACE NOW I CANT WAIT TO GET THERE LOVE YA ALL PHIL

The pleasure of reading a story and wondering what will come next for the hero is a pleasure that has lasted for centuries and, I think, will always be with us.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

The first condition of immortality is death.

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy.

to Alexander the Great, who wept when there were no more worlds to conquer...

It's damned hard to fire another human being face-to-face, which is why you sort of have to congratulate Ted Turner, who took it upon himself to fire his own son from the family business—over dinner.

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

Seen from a contemporary vantage point, not only is modern Greece definitively unrelated to ancient Greece, it may well be its antithesis.5

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

Who was Confucius? His real name was Kong Qiu, and he was the extramarital child of an impoverished seventy-year-old aristocrat and his sixteen-year-old concubine. The boy was born 551 years before Christ, and half a century before Rome became a republic.

Los libros sólo se escriben para, por encima del propio aliento, unir a los seres humanos, y así defendernos frente al inexorable reverso de toda existencia: la fugacidad y el olvido

One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion.

Para qué vivimos, si el viento tras nuestros zapatos ya se está llevando nuestras últimas huellas?

He lived one of those lives that seem otiose because they are not linked to any community of interest, because all the riches stored in them by a thousand separate valuable experiences will pass when their last breath is drawn, without anyone to inherit them.

Mr. Zweig always encouraged his friends to set down their reminiscences, not necessarily for publication but for the pleasure and benefit of their children, their families. In his opinion every life includes inner or external experiences worthy of record.