Quotes About Legacy

The differences we have in life won't determine the results we shall have in death.

we're not just a name over the door we, are a result of what we do

Everyone looks up to you. They listen to you. If you tell them to fight, they'll fight. But they need to be inspired. And let's face it, "Superman"... the last time you really inspired anyone -- was when you were dead.

Gotham may have lost its king and queen, Bruce, but it could still have its prince

Yo... no quiero ser ningún otro. No quiero ser diferente. Quiero ser Clark Kent. Quiero ser tu hijo.

Xander, have you ever googled "Mayflower" and "Billingtons"? Because I did. And it turns out one of your ancestors almost blew up the ship. And another one got hanged for murder after they landed in America. Ed. Note: 100% TRUE (you can google this)

Technologies from a prior era, once the focal point of innovation, now become the scaffolding upon which next-generation innovation will build.

Never the standout, they are what makes for the continuity, so that after the star either dies (tragedy) or rides off into the sunset (heroic romance, comedy), they are left to clean up and to answer the inevitable final

Christianity probably has been the most important institution in the world in the last 2000 years. It has achieved more for western civilisation than has any other factor; it has helped far more people than it has harmed.

For he was Epicurus owene sone.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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he had died as late as the New Year of 1939, he would, as Paul Addison says, 'perhaps be remembered today as the most illustrious and interesting failure in twentieth-century British politics'. Certainly until his apotheosis he was more often seen as an 'interesting failure' than as the subject for a study in greatness.

He was a great something, but a great what?

Although Churchill hadn't been the only sponsor of the doomed Gallipoli enterprise, he had played a leading role, and not even an honest one at times. In any case, the old saying goes that success has many parents but failure is an orphan, and Gallipoli had become a one-parent child.

In sharp contradiction to Kipling, Mark Twain had no wish to succeed the British in any imperial role. He abhorred what his country had done to the people of the Philippines as much as what the British had done to the Boers, and so he finished introducing his English guest with the playfully reproachful words: 'We are kin. And now that we are kin in sin, there is nothing more to be desired.

No earthly act escapes its eternal echoes, echoes more substantial than the acts themselves.

Shaga: How would you like to die, little man? Tyrion: In my bed, at the age of eighty with a belly full of wine and a woman's mouth around my cock.

A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

Darüber, daß sie nichts zum zweitenmal erfinden wollen, lernen sie alles so ansehen, wie es ihre Vorfahren angesehen haben. Der zweite Fehler ist aber gewiß schlimmer, als der erste.

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

History, in [Nietzsches] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot find them among his contemporaries. Without history the mountain chain of great mens great moments, which runs through millennia, could not stand clearly and vividly before me.