Quotes About Legacy

The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone.

Her image of it came entirely from what she had heard. Or read. Or received unconsciously from distant ancestors. And yet it lived within her.

For a trial is initiated not to render justice but to annihilate the defendant. Even when the trial is of dead people, the point is to kill them off a second time: by burning their books; by removing their names from the schoolbooks; by demolishing their monuments; by rechristening the streets that bore their names.

It's a great consolation to think that when we've long been in the grave our noses will still be strolling the earth.

If we only have one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

Al final será suficiente con que logre una sola cosa. La última: Entregar mi vida como un mensaje claro y comprensible a una sola persona que lo comprenda y se encargue de llevarlo.

Stalin's son laid down his life for shit. But a death for shit is not a senseless death.

She took after her mother, and not only physically. I sometimes have the feeling that her entire life was merely a continuation of her mother's, much as the course of a ball on the billiard table is merely the continuation of the player's arm movement. Where and when did it begin, the movement that later turned into Tereza's life?

Everyone has trouble accepting the fact he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late.

Ä°nsan hayat?na son verebilir ama ölümsüzlüÄŸüne son veremez.

Een kind hebben betekent zich absoluut uitspreken voor de mens. Als ik een kind heb, dan is het alsof ik zou zeggen: Ik ben geboren, ik heb het leven geproefd en ben er achter gekomen dat het goed genoeg is en dat het verdient herhaald te worden.

No solo era físicamente parecida a su madre, sino que a veces me parece que su vida no era más que una prolongación de la vida de la madre, poco más o menos como la trayectoria de una bola de billar es solo la prolongación del movimiento de la mano del jugador

Entonces se percató con sorpresa que no era desdichado. La presencia física de Sabina , era mucho menos importante de lo que había supuesto. Lo importante era la huella dorada que había dejado en su vida y que nadie podría quitarle. Aquella inesperada felicidad, aquella comodidad, aquel placer que le producían la libertad y la nueva vida, ese era el regalo que la había dejado.

Si una tumba está cubierta por una lápida, el muerto ya nunca podrá salir.

?ovjek može sam sebi oduzeti život. Ali, ?ovjek ne može sam sebi oduzeti besmrtnost.

the dead far outnumber the living.

Non solo assomigliava fisicamente alla madre, ma a volte ho l'impressione che la sua vita non sia stata che un prolungamento della vita della madre [...].

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me "a legend".(…) A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

ZAR NE VIDIŠ DA NI TO LICE NA TEBI NIJE TVOJE? POGLEDAJ NA BILO KOJU FRESKU ILI SLIKU PA ?EŠ GA ZA?AS NA?I. TEBI JE SAMO PRIVREMENO DATO NA ?UVANJE, DA GA MALO NOSIŠ, KAO TU? ŠEŠIR, PA ?E OTI?I DALJE. TO ISTO VREDI I ZA TVOJ GLAS I ZVIŽDUK. OSVRNI SE, UOSTALOM, NA SVOJU SENKU, TU NA ZIDU, KOJA JE RASLA I GOJILA SE S TOBOM. U NJU ?EŠ JEDNOM LE?I POSLEDNJI PUT I ONA ?E TE NADŽIVETI.

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

In the wake of Animal House, the stock briefly and quite wrongly shot up. So I love that movie.

I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.

A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.