Quotes About Legacy

Psychohistory, which can predict the fall, can make statements concerning the succeeding dark ages. The Empire, gentlemen, as has just been said, has stood twelve thousand years. The dark ages to come will endure not twelve, but thirty thousand years. A Second Empire will rise, but between it and our civilization will be one thousand generations of suffering humanity. We must fight that.

Ellos se extenderán por la Galaxia a un ritmo que irá en aumento, sin la Tierra para mirar con nostalgia, sin la Tierra en forma de un dios, y establecerán un Imperio Galáctico. Era preciso que lo hiciéramos posible. Hizo una pausa, y su voz se debilitó al decir: «Robots e Imperio».

Tenía unas páginas de poesía, que guardaba con indecible cariño, donde se podía leer que lo que una mano había hecho nunca podía deshacerlo.

În tinereÈ›e p?r?sise Europa, plecând din Amsterdam; se schimbase ceva prin asta, nu r?m?sese acelaÈ™i om? ?i dac? mai târziu oamenii p?r?siser? un P?mânt bolnav, îndreptându-se spre alte lumi de pe firmament, nu r?m?seser? tot oameni? Nu era a sa toat? Galaxia? Nu erau cu toÈ›ii urmaÈ™ii lui È™i-ai fraÈ›ilor s?i?

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day. The whole world, all human life, is one long story.

If you hear I'm dead, don't come to my funeral.

The dead don't go anywhere. They're all here. Each man is a cemetery. An actual cemetery, in which lie all our grandmothers and grandfathers, the father and mother, the wife, the child. Everyone is here all the time.

How is it possible, after all, that someone should simply vanish? How can someone who lived, loved, and wrangled with God and with himself just disappear? I don't know how and in what sense but they're here. Since time is an illusion, why shouldn't everything remain?

We expected a large gathering, because it is the nature of people to forget a saint while he is alive and give him all honors at his death.

reshayim, the wicked. It is the wicked who make history.

One common aim united Alexander of Macedonia and Hamilcar, Genghis Khan and Charlemagne, Chmielnitzki and Napoleon, Robespierre and Lenin.

Although I had turned away from the Jewish path i still carried the diaspora on me

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.

If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for a way to keep them alive, remembering them in the most minimal details, I have been changing them, adorning them with qualities they may not have had. I have given them a destiny much more complex than the ones they lived.

The world is paralyzed, and humanity is in quarantine. It is a strange symmetry that I was born in one pandemic and will die during another.

I said goodbye, kissed her, and asked her forgiveness for the sins of withholding and neglect. I thanked her for having existed, promised her that she would live on in my heart, and in her son's, begged her not to leave me, to visit me in dreams, to send me signs and clues, to return incarnated in every beautiful young woman I saw on the street, and to appear to me in spirit during the darkest hours of the night and in the days of the midday Sun.

A muchas hijas nos ha tocado vivir la vida que nuestras madres no pudieron vivir.

There's a time to live and a time to die. In between there's time to remember. That is all I've done for these past days, silently filling in the missing details to complete this testament—a sentimental legacy, more than a material one.

He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.

supe que simplemente había cumplido su misión en esta tierra y había volado a otra dimensión donde su espíritu, libre al fin de los lastres materiales, se sentiría más a gusto.

Inés Suárez (1507-1580), española, nacida en Plasencia, viajó al Nuevo Mundo en 1537 y participó en la conquista de Chile y la fundación de la ciudad de Santiago. Tuvo gran influencia política y poder económico. Las hazañas de Inés Suárez, mencionadas por los cronistas de su época, fueron casi olvidadas por los historiadores durante más de cuatrocientos años.

Cuánto vive el hombre, por fin? ¿Vive mil años o uno solo? ¿Vive una semana o varios siglos? ¿Por cuánto tiempo muere el hombre? ¿Qué quiere decir para siempre? PABLO NERUDA

In her experience, light skin and money made almost anything easier. She wanted her grandchildren to come into the world with an advantage.

si las locuras se repiten en la familia, debe ser que existe una memoria genética que impide que se pierdan en el olvido.