Quotes About Legacy

Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.

The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...

Los buenos recuerdos que una persona deja en la vida de otra son el mejor regalo que pueden hacernos.

En sólo unos pocos años, cuando todo lo que perdurara de mí en esta tierra no fuera más que recuerdo y polvo, del monasterio no habría de quedar piedra sobre piedra.

Si las mujeres de esta familia no hubieran sido tan estúpidas y los hombres tan ambiciosos, se habrían ahorrado años de dolor.

Para los más jóvenes aquel apellido sonoro y agudo que oían pronunciar de vez en cuando estaba vagamente ligado a la leyenda de aquellos parajes, a sus historias más antiguas, ciertas o no, y a algunas personas muertas mucho tiempo atrás que antes de abandonar este mundo se encargaron de dejar bien grabado su nombre en la memoria colectiva.

A los muertos nos fastidia tener que hablar con los vivos. Si no fuera porque tenemos muchas historias que contar, nunca lo haríamos

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

History," Burckhardt once observed, "is what one age finds worthy of note in another.

Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

There is no grater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent.

don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death," Depp reflected. "You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

His verdict: "I have several sons, but I only have one ball club.

Trebuie s? tr?ie?ti în a?a fel încât ceilal?i s?-?i regrete moartea, nu s? ?i-o doreasc?.

The solution of adult problems tomorrow depends in large measure upon the way our children grow up today. There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves. —MARGARET MEAD

For everyone in this occupation, the skyline of New York is a family tree.

The last time somebody was cremated, his ashes were sprinkled from a crop duster. We all ran for cover. We liked him fine, but we didn't want him all over our good clothes.

Gayle Forman

In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.

Megan Luisa Garcia I WAS HERE

I'm the one shot, the heir and the spare, so you have to make damn sure your one investment pays off because there's no backup.