Quotes About Legacy

It was going to be a tough ten years, he thought, for men with grown sons. Warren

Look at a politician, eighty years old, making a speech to a crowd in the rain. What's driving him? Not ambition. He's been a senator for forty years. He can never be anything more. But by winning this election he can have one more Hit.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deacesed inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanities.

THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS

The purpose is to prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time...

For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.

Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember

It is unfortunate for us, that, of some of the greatest men, we know least, and talk most.

Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above all the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. They were the bravest champions...

My mother Thetis tells me that there are two ways in which I may meet my end. If I stay here and fight, I will not return alive but my name will live forever: whereas if I go home my name will die, but it will be long ere death shall take me.

contemplating the incidents in their lives or condition which tradition has handed down to us

And so the Trojans buried Hector, breaker of horses.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

That is the god's work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, and all to make a song for those to come...

Nastes and Amphimachus, the illustrious sons of Nomion - but Nastes, chilldish fool that he was, Went into battle decked out in gold like a girl. But gold could not help him escape a horrible death at the hands of Aeacus' grandson, the swift Achilles, In the bed of the river, and Achilles, fierce ad fiery, Took care of all his gold.

Human beings live for only a short time, and when a man is harsh himself, and his mind knows harsh thoughts, all men pray that sufferings will befall him hereafter while he lives; and when he is dead all men make fun of him. But when a man is blameless himself, and his thoughts are blameless, the friends he has entertained carry his fame widely to all mankind, and many are they who call him excellent.

We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. 320  A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

Human beings live for only a short time, and when a man is harsh himself, and his mind knows harsh thoughts, 330 all men pray that sufferings will befall him hereafter while he lives; and when he is dead all men make fun of him. But when a man is blameless himself, and his thoughts are blameless, the friends he has entertained carry his fame widely to all mankind, and many are they who call him excellent.

some day let them say of him: 'He is better by far than his father,' 480  as he comes in from the fighting

But a man's life breath cannot come back again— no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

We're glad to say we're men of Atrides Agamemnon, whose fame is the proudest thing on earth these days, so great a city he sacked, such multitudes he killed!

Few sons, indeed, are like their fathers. Generally they are worse; but just a few are better.