Quotes About Legacy

I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years. I think there's an element in the slowness of the execution that adds to the possibility of producing something that will be durable in its expression, that will be considered important five centuries later.

She wanted to protect us from worry, from sadness, from loneliness--things her parents had not been able to protect her from. (About Alice)

I love you, Papa," I said. "And I love you," my father replied. "I have loved you every day of your life. I will love you for every day of mine and more. My love will never diminish, no matter how many steps you take throughout the world, no matter how many years you wander until your task is done.

It live on in all who live and remember, teaching them how to discover such a love for themselves.

But the scent of my father's hate could not be washed entirely away. It clung to my skin, a faint rotten spell.

She did what she did, then left the rest of us to deal with it.

So maybe I wasn't that high profile when I was a student here," I said. "But am I really more interesting dead than alive?" "You don't seriously expect me to answer that, do you?" Elaine said.

It felt like betrayal, but in truth it was simply Muhammed Bruce's lament for the passing of an era. A time when Europeans had roamed the earth in pursuit of adventure, largely oblivious to the lives and laws of the people in the countries they picked through like cherries. Spitting out the pits. Just like my parents. They had stomped on the world like the Burtons of their era, only worse somehow because they did not think that their shoes left marks.

The truth wouldn't set me free. I'd only end up like my father.

You'll understand when you're older, Orla, that "givin' a hard time" to a young person is all to a purpose. With every word you speak, every gesture, every impulse you give in to without reflection, you're building your character - and at the end of your life, your character is all you have to show for yourself.

météorites, Le galvanisme, La circulation du sang, La vaccine, L'ondulation de la lumière, Le paratonnerre, Le daguerréotype, La vapeur, L'hélice, Les paquebots, Les chemins de fer, L'éclairage au gaz, Le magnétisme, Et le reste, À ceux, vivants et à naître, qui font de même Dans le présent, Et feront de même dans l'avenir.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.

La ley prohibe que en tu testamento dispongas: con el solomillo de mi cadaver se hara roast-beef para mis hijos y nietos debera quedar dorado por fuera y sangrante por dentro y servirse con patatas hervidas al vapor.

La vida no es sólo el corazón que late. Es también el pensamiento flotando sobre el corazón que ha dejado de latir.

What lasts, what endures, as Shakespeare knew, is this: the story of a life. No more, no less.

I imagine this is how it must be with our ancestors. They watch us closely, full of love and concern, sometimes whispering encouragement through a crack, but mostly just satisfied to know that we are happy.

The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.

We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.

Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.

We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive.

To be the queen of an ancient kingdom, even the abdicated queen, apparently counts for nothing in the universal scheme of things.

In fact, Secret Service agents would not be officially assigned to protect the president until after William McKinley was shot in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901. The day McKinley was shot—he would die from his wounds eight days later—Robert Todd Lincoln was once again standing with the president, thus earning the dubious distinction of being the only man to be present at three of our nation's four presidential assassinations.