Quotes About Legacy

That huge old house, which had an entrance on two streets, was one-story tall with a mansard roof, and it harbored a tribe of great-grandparents, maiden aunts, cousins, servants, poor relatives, and guests who became permanent residents; no one tried to throw them out because in Chile "visitors" are protected by the sacred code of hospitality. There was also an occasional ghost of dubious authenticity, always in plentiful supply in my family.

Nunca hay que vender la tierra. Es lo único que queda cuando todo lo demás se acaba.

I'm fine here, Lenny. I'm discovering who I am without all my ornaments and accessories. It's quite a slow process, but a very useful one. Everybody ought to do the same at the end of their life. If I had any self-discipline I would beat my grandson to it and write my own memoirs. I have time, freedom, and silence, the three things I never had amidst all the noise of my earlier life. I'm preparing to die.

Para un chino ilustre el evento más importante en la vida era su propio funeral.

Soy impaciente; ahora comprendo que pretendía inyectarles feminismo a mi madre contra su voluntad, sin tener en cuenta que ella venía de otra época.

El tío Ramón tenía tan mala memoria para lo negativo, que en su vejez me llamaba Angélica–mi segundo nombre–y me decía que me durmiera de lado para no aplastar mis alas. Lo repitió hasta el final de sus días, cuando la demencia y el cansancio de vivir lo habían reducido a una sombra de quien fue.

No sé cómo son tus relaciones íntimas con tu marido, pero si tienes quejas, te aconsejo que hablemos del tema, porque después de mi muerte no tendrás con quién hacerlo. Los hombres, como los perros y caballos, deben ser domesticados, pero pocas mujeres son capaces de hacerlo, ya que ellas mismas nada saben, no han tenido un maestro como Juan de Málaga.

En la dimensión del cosmos y en el trayecto de la historia somos insignificantes, después de nuestra muerte todo sigue igual, como si jamás hubiéramos existido.

A caution to aspiring writers: not everything you write is worth keeping for the benefit of future generations.) When she gave me that notebook, my mother somehow intuited that I would have to dig up my Chilean roots, and that lacking a land into which to sink them I would have to do that on paper.

Lo importante es lo que uno hace en este mundo, no cómo se llega a él

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

I will not be alive to see the end of this war. So, to save a place in your memories for other things, I won't tell you my name. If you survive this war, just remember me as the old man you met. You boys should be on your way.

I want to leave New Zealand in better shape than I found it. I know the job of prime minister is not forever and I'm going to do the best I can every day to make that difference.

I have a direct hand in the queer zeitgeist, and what I'm putting out there has to be something I'm proud of.

Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.

Most of our great influences were male rockers, like Led Zeppelin.

What I love about Zeppelin is that you can listen to their entire catalog and kind of see where they were at in the moment.

I don't think I'll be remembered in a big Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin way. I think I'll be remembered in this way: by the people who were there, who can't capture or explain it. I'm not trying to brag or anything. It's not about me. It's about facilitating a good time for everyone.

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.

Nothing that Robert Plant does will ever equal Led Zeppelin, but that doesn't mean he's going to stop being creative. Jimmy Page has so many incredibly cool projects, but it's not Led Zeppelin; there will only ever be one Led Zeppelin.

The re-releases have more than doubled the amount of Led Zeppelin work out there. I wanted it done authoritatively, 'cause I was the one writing the stuff; I was the producer and mixer. I don't think it's any more weird than writing your autobiography.

You get a chance like that maybe once in your lifetime, and you are lucky to sustain it over that period of time. It doesn't mean to say that whatever I do in the future has no substance to it - I may present some new material I've got, and there are definitely new angles of doing it - but I'm not looking to recreate another Led Zeppelin.

We're never gonna see bands like Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath again. It's over.

Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.