Quotes About Legacy

The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here or shall she not?

The pure, clean water of spiritual truth is placed in rusty containers, and the subsequent failings of the church down through the centuries should not be projected onto the faith itself, as if the water had been the problem.

No, no, not in the law, it ain't. Not in the end, I mean. When a man is dead, sense must be made of it; and it might as well be sense as serves the living, for it won't serve the dead, nohow.

What is the tactful, the effective way of announcing that your life's work has been wasted?

I'm told that when Auden died, they found his Oxford all but clawed to pieces. That is the way a poet and his dictionary should come out.

Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009)

Llama que a la inmortal vida trasciende, ni teme con el cuerpo sepultura, ni el tiemnpo la marchita ni la ofende.

la corrupción, un cáncer pavoroso que nos devora hasta nuestros días, llegó con los españoles, al igual que la viruela y otras devastadoras enfermedades?

Cárdenas se convirtió en el nuevo Porfirio Díaz. Imposible que se moviera una hoja de papel sin su autorización, y sin embargo pasó a la historia como el salvador

A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die.

The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

May her moccasins make tracks in many snows that are yet to come

a feeling that blowing off his father's head was the natural and logical way of discovering the contents of the will in which he was mildly interested, a strange indifference to the money that might result—

Werther s-a sinucis, apoi tineri din toat? Europa l-au urmat ?i s-au sinucis ?i ei, mai pu?in autorul lui, Goethe, viclean maestru al practicii, a tr?it.

Some have called we rock and roll performers who never retire 'troubadours.' I enjoy this misnomer immensely. While there are many differences between me and my distant predecessors in L'Occitane, I do believe there is a lineage that connects us of the last 70 years with those romantic singers of the High Middle Ages.

One man, one film.

We walked on the moon. We made footprints somewhere no one else had ever made footprints, and unless someone comes and rubs them out, those footprints will be there forever because there's no wind.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

James left us, taking his great, informed soul with him.

Draped across an armchair lay his famous long black coat, empty now, and hollow with missing him.

What I told you tonight - it isn't my story alone. It belongs to every Irish person living and dead. And every Irish person living and dead belongs to it. And to all the story of Ireland; blood and bones, legends, guns and dreams, Catholics, Protestants, England, horses and poets and lovers.

To have come from Ireland no matter how long ago is to be of Ireland in some part forever.