Quotes About Legacy

You are not the first Heterodyne to be more concerned with destruction than with the continuation of the family.

Shrine after shrine has crumbled before our eyes; but one altar if forever preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,-ourselves.

Narasimha Varmar, who single-handedly crushed Pulikesi, a man who ruled an Empire from Narmadha in the north to Thungabhadhra in the south—and even erected a column of victory in Vathapi?

When I heard you were dead, Heraclitus, tears came, and I remembered how often you and I had talked the sun to bed. Long ago you turned to ashes, my Halicarnassian friend, but your poems, your Nightingales, still live. Hades clutches all things yet can't touch these.

They brought me word of your death, Heraklieitos, and I wept for you remembering how often we watched the sun setting as we talked. Dear Halikarnassian friend, you lie elsewhere now and are mere ashes; yet your songs—your nightingales—will live, and never will the underworld, destroying everything, touch them with its deadly hand.

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.

By contrast, whatever happened to Maryam today wouldn't matter very much. She'd still inherit a business and a place in society. The rich lived in a different universe.

an Indian, introducing the English to the history of India, which was his history and not theirs. It was a surprising thought, and something in it made him uneasy. He had thought the world would change around him but his own life would stay unaffected. 'India

My history is your picnic ground,

Therefore, the legacy of pan-Arabism as a phase in postwar Arab politics lies not in its failure over half a century to achieve Arab unity but in the way it captured the high ground of all politics: the language and fundamental categories it is conducted in.

I'm going down as a legend, whether you like me or not. I am the new Jim Morrison. I am the new Kurt Cobain.

My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

History is written by the victors, they say, but it seems to me that history is written above all by those who weren't there, which may be the same thing.

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

I looked down the line of the wonderfully successful people on either side of me and wondered if each of them had a Coach Wooden who, to quote President Obama, "helped make me who I am." I hoped so, because without Coach, my life would have been so much less. Less joyous. Less meaningful. Less filled with love. Later

At first, when I arrived at Ferrari, I was very intimidated by all the people there, by Ferrari itsel. This name is the biggest in motorsports.

Came to acting pretty late. It looked wonderful, but I guess I was intimidated by my father. I look a bit like him, and he was so much bigger than life and so great, it took me a bit longer than most people to have enough confidence in myself.

Maybe I was intimidated by my father's talent and success.

David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.

I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.

It was definitely my grandmother who introduced me to fashion.