Quotes About Legacy

When this war was over, he and his family--all Germans--were going to have to live with the black mark of this (whatever this was) for a long, long time.

We are mortal. Nothing that touches us or we touch here is forever. Even rocks are rubbed small by the river. [Mary Deerfield]

Supposedly, whatever we do that's selfish goes with us to the grave; whatever we do that's selfless lives on.

A cemetery is a history of people -a perpetual record of yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery exists because crcrv life is worth loving and rc nrcnrbcrirli-alm111s. - WILLIAM GLADSTONE, PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND, 1890

The United States of Andrew Jackson or George Washington is not the United States of Frederick Douglass or Sitting Bull. But we present our history from the perspective of the winners, from those in power

The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the memory of their obliteration acknowledged. It is a moral obsession, the lonely legacy passed onto the third and fourth generation who no longer speak Armenian but who carry within them the seeds of resentment that will not be quashed.

Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.

When I look in the mirror, I see my late mother: I have her nose, her dark eyes - I call them chocolate eyes - I have her colouring, and my hair is greying the same way, although I use colour and she didn't.

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.

The biggest misconception my whole life is that I'm rich, that I had all this money from my dad, which I did not.

My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.

I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

People will come up, and they'll talk about 'Misery.' But a lot of people will talk about 'Waterboy.'

'Misery' left a lasting mark on me. When I die, it will be 'Kathy 'Misery' Bates Is Dead.'

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

I'm going to miss Saroj Ji and I will cherish all the fond memories I have of her.

Prince inspired me. He changed my life. I will miss him greatly.

I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it.

I miss being governor.

I don't miss politics.

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

My father was a great business leader and humanitarian who dedicated his life to the company and the community. He also was a wonderful family man, a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He will be greatly missed by everyone who knew him, yet he will continue to inspire us all.