Quotes About Legacy

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

Artists are born under Saturn and heroes must die young

There had been Seligmans in Baiersdorf for over a century. Theirs had been a family name long before Napoleon had decreed that Germany's Jews no longer needed to be known as "sons" of their fathers' names—Moses ben Israel, and so on. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century tombstones in Baiersdorf's Jewish cemetery recorded the upright virtues of many of David's ancestors, all named Seligman ("Blessed man" in German).

David's final words to his son were a tearful entreaty to observe the Sabbath and the dietary laws. Fanny's final gesture was to sew one hundred American dollars into the seat of Joseph's pants.

When asked why a man sixty-nine years old, who had spent most of his life manufacturing and selling small household appliances, should suddenly at the end of his career fling himself into the construction of a major building, Mr. Clark replied, "To make money.

There were the Steinways, for example (ironically

Agassiz trained an army of able young naturalists who took his method to other universities, and they in turn passed them on to their students, themselves future professors.38

This moment will just be another story someday.

Tanacharison (who could relate to the cow because he claimed that the French had boiled and eaten his father)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Eighty Years and More: 1815–1898, Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Indy Publishing, 2004

Laurie Calkhoven. Harriet Tubman: Leading the Way to Freedom. Sterling: New York, 2008

Edmund Morris. Beethoven: The Universal Composer. HarperCollins: New York, 2005

Geoffrey C. Ward. Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony—An Illustrated History. Knopf: New York, 1999.

Half of tradition is a lie.

Nothing the Rolling Stones ever did was more important than the respect they showed to the music that had inspired them.

In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.

Star Trek] It has given us a legacy-a message-man can create a future worth living for.... a future that is full of optimism, hope, excitement, and challenge. A future that proudly proclaims man's ability to survive in peace and reach for the stars as his reward. ... We have its legacy...all we have to do is use it.

When we die our argument dies with us. The argument we never articulated well enough, that we were failed by our parents, and the schools, and the state. The cause of death is the missing safety net.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree today.

In the old days, the boy's mom would have gotten a name for what she did: Shoots the Car Twice or Four Holes in the Glass or Doesn't Ever Learn or Can't Stop Fighting.

My grandfather used to tell me he was a werewolf. He'd