Quotes About Legacy

Robert Kennedy, on his own, left no great legislative legacy, founded no great institution, led no great movement. His most extraordinary accomplishment - and it was extraordinary - was to embody in himself, and create in others, a kind of transcendent yearning for the possibility of redemptive change.

As a day well spent gives joyful sleep, so does a life well spent give joyful death. —Leonardo da Vinci

The original mistake, which was responsible for all this misery, was committed when our scientists began to create a new world of steel and iron and chemistry and electricity and forgot that the human mind is slower than the proverbial turtle, is lazier than the well-known sloth, and marches from one hundred to three hundred years behind the small group of courageous leaders.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

History isn't just something that's being us, it's also something that follows us.

A full description of a person's life, however uneventful or uninteresting, fills a large folder.

A história não é só o que deixamos para trás, mas é também algo que nos vai acompanhando ao longo da vida.

I'm afraid I am hopelessly, furiously envious of all those who will continue to live when I am dead. I am equally embarrassed and terrified by the thought. I try to deny it, but it recurs with increasing frequency the older I get.

Key rings rattle throughout history. Each key, each lock has its tale.

In the biological world children are the sole purpose. Nothing else matters.

Our ancestors survive somewhere in our faces, she thought. If you look like your mother as a child, you end up as your father when you age. When you no longer recognise your face, it's because an unknown ancestor has taken up residence for a while.

Existe una suerte de denominador común entre todas las grandes civilizaciones y culturas clásicas: para quienes vivían en ellas, todas eran inmortales.

But I've come to terms with the fact that you never escape your parents. The roles are simply reversed. You become your parents' parents. - Lisa Holgersson

the remnants of a person's life inevitably ended up at the nearest dump.

Ihminen voi elää juurettomana. Mutta kuolla ei voi tietämättä, mihin työntää viimeiset ja kaikkein arvokkaimmat juurensa.

The whole of China was overshadowed by the injustice of the past.

History isn't just something that's behind us, it's also something that follows us.

My grandfather had dominated my childhood out on the island, but my grandmother had been there too, providing the security I didn't recognise or value until I was an adult.

Births and deaths are going on all around us all the time. But the dying seems more pronounced when you reach the front of the line. Now that my father is dead there's no one ahead of me anymore.

I've got all the money I'll ever need. If I die by 4:00.

Même le grand Tolstoï, vous savez ce qu'il disait à Gorki? « Quand je serai à mi-corps dans la tombe, je dirai ce que je pense des femmes, et tout de suite je refermerai sur moi la pierre tombale! »

she said, Whether you are the younger son or the elder son, you have to realize that you are called to become the father.

As the beloved son, I have to claim my full dignity and begin preparing myself to become the father.

If that is true, then the real question for me as I consider my own death is not: how much can I still accomplish before I die, or will I be a burden to others? No, the real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?