Quotes About Legacy

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.

Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?

The impact of European conquerors on Africa, for good and evil, was relatively brief as history is measured-about three generations, as compared to the centuries in which the Romans ruled Britain or imperial China ruled parts of southeast Asia or the Moors ruled Spain.

Perhaps an even more remarkable contribution of Britain to the growth of freedom in the world was its leading role in the destruction of the international slave trade, and then of slavery itself.

building and patronizing churches and schools, both of which were outstanding by the standards of the times.

This [Ulysses] is obviously the wave of the future, I'm glad I'm dying of tuberculosis.

It was her peculiar curse to never really be unknown.

Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (1888–1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. During the First World War, she contracted extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34.

Ölü insanlar?n fotoÄŸraflar? neden hep böyle soluk oluyor, diye merak etti Josephine. Bir insan ölür ölmez fotoÄŸraf? da ölüyordu.

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

Among the many sordid legacies that the Trump/Pence administration will leave behind, perhaps the most damaging over the long term may well be the infiltration of America's judicial system with the progeny of the Federalist Society, the Alliance Defending Freedom, and their allies

History is like an endless waltz, it never ends, it keeps going on and on.

I love you, Shanna. I want you to share my life and that which belongs to me. I want to build you a mansion, as you father did for your mother, as my parent did here. I want to give you children, with dark hair and light, and watch them grow, bathed in our love. I hav properties on the James. The land is good, and 'twill nourish our offsprings. It only waits your word to say where the house will be.

Kathleen G. Nadeau

I stole the character straight out of Georgette's A Civil Contract." Jenny considered herself on a first name basis with the late, legendary Regency novelist Georgette Heyer.

FINDING FORGIVENESS : THE EXTRAORDINARY LEGACY OF AMY BIEHL AND HER FAMILY

For every joy that passes, something beautiful remains.

All my life, I have taken satisfaction in finishing things in order that I may experience a sense of achievement, regardless of whether the thing was really worth achieving. ... Death, I suspect, will likely be unsatisfying because I will no longer be present to feel the achievement thereof.

Everything we sell will probably outlast us, isn't that an odd thought? It was here before we were born and will be here long after we're gone.

I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.

It's a miracle, really, that any of the royal children went on to become King. But maybe there's no version of childhood that could adequately prepare you for that particular future.