Quotes About Legacy

Sitting Bull is known today for stalwart resistance, for being the last of his tribe to surrender to the U.S. government. But at the Little Bighorn, he did not want to fight. He wanted to talk. This may be his most important legacy. As he recognized when he instructed his nephew to approach Reno's skirmish line with a shield instead of a rifle, our children are best served not by a self-destructive blaze of glory, but by the hardest path of all: survival and accommodation.

Three Village Historical Society

Fairfield Museum and History Center

Lafayette, who later claimed, "I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.

All I want is for someone to understand me before I die. With death staring me in the face, I finally understand the reason novelists write books: before they die they want somebody, somewhere, to understand them.

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

Laurence Binyon's poem "For the Fallen" was read in English and in Norwegian translation at the ceremony: "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: / Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. / At the going down of the sun and in the morning, / We will remember them.

He had passed beyond the afflictions of this world. Walt Disney had at last attained perfection.

he had become the patriarch of horseflesh.

the most powerful source of his appeal as well as his greatest legacy may be that Walt Disney, more than any other American artist, defined the terms of wish fulfillment and demonstrated on a grand scale to his fellow Americans, and ultimately to the entire world, how one could be empowered by fantasy—how one could learn, in effect, to live within one's own illusions and even to transform the world into those illusions.

I choose to be known as scythe Anastasia after the youngest member of the family Romanov she was the product of a corrupt system, and because of that, was denied her very life—as I almost was had she lived who knows what she might have done. perhaps she could have changed the world and redeemed her family name. choose to be scythe Anastasia. I vow to become the change that night have been

You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families?but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.

That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!

Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.

Luck is for losers. You have history on your side. You have gravity. You have authority. You are the Granddame of Death.

All I'm saying is that, unless you're immortal, nothing can really belong to you. The best you can hope for is to hold something for a while, but in the end you've got to give it back.

For those who will be gleaned, do we not, at the very least owe them a spectacular end

And in this way, we shall make our scythedom great once more.

I will be keeper of your secret, Talon told the silent grave of the forgotten inventor. I will be the one who remembers why we forget.

Had she lived, who knows what she might have done. Perhaps she could have changed the world and redeemed her family name. I choose to be Scythe Anastasia. I vow to become the change that might have been.

Everyone's going to remember where they were when the taps went dry, I think. Like when a president is assassinated.

Setting an example presupposes that someone will be left to learn from it. It's pointless when there's no one to set an example for.