Quotes About Legacy

Trump's ambitions and motivations notwithstanding, his legacy in the Middle East might best be characterized as tactical maneuvers and strategic incoherence. 3 Trump's actions and tweets left the Middle East in worse shape than what he had inherited, as his policy unorthodoxy created a great deal of uncertainty.

relies of the past. But the lovely Piedmontese must

Our stories are what we have," Our Good Mother says. "Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?

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Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

Who becomes you? No one. No one should become me. When I die, I don't want my body or soul inhabited. I wouldn't wish me on anyone.

How will you be remembered? As a loner and a loser.

Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter.

Still, who, I wondered, owns the disappearing story that, in, part, they tell? The story of the teacher and the children lives now in so few places: on that weather-beaten wall, in scrapbooks filled with photographs. History isn't a sculptured cup; it's more like a sieve through which so many stories pass and disappear.

When question time in the House was over, Forster picked up his red box of papers and left his front bench seat by Gladstone's side for the last time.

But if they've helped form you into who you are, then they never really leave you; they're always with you in whatever you do, and maybe that's the point.

Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what is now called Cooktown for nearly two months while making repairs. Then they sailed south, where Cook claimed the east coast of Australia as British territory.

a newborn with a mother whose mother came undone.

Young would-be novelists and poets believe that art is eternal. Au contraire: we are in the business of ephemera, the era of floating islands of trash, and most of the things we feel deeply and inscribe on the page will disappear.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

In growing older, we become our parents.

Eddy, Vita's cousin. Even better, if Vita herself had been born

Ton père? Il est le dernier de cette race effrayante des Tournemine, qui durant les siècles, ont fondu comme des oiseaux de proie sur tout ce qui passait à portée de leurs tours (.....) Il ne lui restait rien de la puissance ni de l'énorme fortune qui faisaient dire, à certaine époque, que les messieurs de La Hunaudaye étaient seulement un peu moins grands seigneurs que le Roi de France. Il s'appelait Pierre ....

No serás más que un recuerdo que morirá con el caer del primer sol.

Hay que mantener en un obstinado presente, con toda su sangre y su ignominia, algo que ya se está queriendo hacer entrar en el cómodo país del olvido

En konkreto, Abila Sanhes fue ombre de pensamiento y aksión, de moral i de kultura. Esto son las partidas de su aber.

murió María Esther antes que llegáramos a comprometernos. Entramos en los cuarenta años con la inexpresada idea de que el nuestro, simple y silencioso matrimonio de hermanos, era necesaria clausura de la genealogía asentada por nuestros bisabuelos en nuestra casa.

Tus nociones sobre la verdad y la bondad son puramente históricas, se fundan en una ética heredada. Pero la historia y a ética me parecen a mí altamente dudosas.