Quotes About Legacy

If I were to put a date on it, I would say that the French Revolution finally came to rest after almost exactly 180 years, on April 28, 1969, when President de Gaulle resigned in a huff and the Fifth Republic, which he had founded, sailed on without him without a tremor.

Once a King, always a King. But once a Knight is enough!

Mister. Nothing is forever. Only death is permanent. Nothing is forever except what you did to me.

On these things he spent all his money and it was his ambition to have as little as possible in his banking account when he was killed, as, when he was depressed, he knew he would be, before the statutory age of forty-five.

He quit while he was still alive.

The U.S. has the most prestigious schools in the world. Harvard University was founded in 1636, with the motto veritas: Latin, for truth. Yale University was founded in 1701 with the motto lux et veritas: light and truth. Even the fictional Faber College from Animal House was founded in 1904 under the motto Knowledge is Good. Then there's Liberty University, founded by the late, hardly lamented Jerry Falwell. Their motto: Training Champions for Christ since 1971. Here

Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?

He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.

There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.

He wanted a father, and for the same reason, he wanted to be a father.

How quickly the dead faded into each other

Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand that your own parents had a full and intricate existence before you were born.

In our decline we live in the shadow of giants.

She was never coming back, she no longer knew what knitting was, but wrapping up her scores of needles, her thousand patterns, a baby's half-finished yellow shawl, to give them all away to strangers was to banish her from the living.

Briony was her last, and nothing between now and the grave would be as elementally important or pleasurable as the care of a child.

From the first sentence, we come into a presence, and we can see for ourselves the quality of a particular mind; in a matter of minutes we may read the fruits of a long-forgotten afternoon, an afternoon's work done in isolation, 150 years ago. And what was once an unfolding personal secret is now ours.

The temptation of the old, born into the middle of things, was to see in their deaths the end of everything, the end of times. That way their deaths made more sense.

Los comentaristas que sugerían que la victoria del ordenador acabaría con el go se equivocaban. Tras su quinta derrota, el viejo maestro de go, auxiliado por un asistente, se puso de pie despacio, hizo una reverencia de cabeza hacia el ordenador portátil y lo felicitó con voz temblorosa. Dijo: El jinete en su montura no acabó con el atletismo. Corremos por placer.

It's enough for me just to sit in front of the paintings of Mahmud Sa'id and the statues of Mahmud Mukhtar. God, if you could only see his statue 'Egypt's Renaissance'! God, if you could only see the statue of 'The Peasant Woman' or 'The Khamasin.' God, if you could only hear Umm Kulthum and Abd al-Wahhab!

There are even people among us who haven't registered their land in their names. However, every one of us knows exactly where his land begins and ends. And this isn't just true nowadays. This is the way it's been since time immemorial

rising artists from Yusuf Wahbi to Nagib al-Rihani, Ali al-Kassar, Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab, and even Umm Kulthum.

And always remember: if men believe that they'll outlive an empire, they will.

Many historians emphasize the catastrophic breaks, ruptures, turning points, as the true stuff of history, but the field would be incomplete without a look into the continuities.

Your sword is made out of your grandmother's bones?" "Okay, I see how it sounds weird when you say it in that tone of voice