Quotes About Legacy

Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is fun to be in the same decade with you. -Roosevelt to Churchill

If we will not prepare to give all that we have and that all that we are to preserve Christian civilization in our land, we shall go to destruction.

Man's desire to be remembered is colossal.

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

The founders of the Republic dealt with things as they were presented to them, in a spirit of self-sacrificing patriotism, and, as time has proved, with a comprehensive wisdom which it will always be safe for us to consult.

Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.

Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.

European opulence is literally a scandal for it was built on the backs of slaves, it fed on the blood of slaves, and owes its very existence to the soil and subsoil of the underdeveloped world. Europe's well-being and progress were built with the sweat and corpses of blacks, Arabs, Indians, and Asians. This we are determined never to forget.

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.

"Like a dog!" he said. It seemed as if his shame would live on after him.

Una grande epoca storica non muore mai tanto rapidamente quanto i suoi tendono a sperare e forse anche devono sperare per poterla colpire con il dovuto rigore.

The deeds of our hearts too...are not without their progeny. [Jeremiah, to Ebed-melech]

Il giorno della mia nascita, i tre personaggi destinati a devastare l'umanità erano già venuti al mondo: Hitler aveva diciotto anni, Stalin ventotto e Mao tredici. Ero cascata nel secolo sbagliato. Il loro.

Papá adoraba a los animales (...) eso es algo que me ha legado, lo mismo que el amor a Italia, a la literatura o a la historia de las civilizaciones. Cierto es que su animalofilia no le privaba de ponerse hasta arriba de asados, filetes o salchichas.

The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.

I want to make timeless movies.

Calculating the value of a life in days and years is a fools arithmetic; the only true measure of our lives is how richly we spend our allotted time, and how much of ourselves we share along the way.

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

Race prejudice has unfortunately become an American tradition which is uncritically handed down from one generation to the next," Einstein declared.

If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.