Quotes About Legacy

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film [War of the Worlds]. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.

The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.

To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.

I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd Here once the embattl'd farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down.It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses.It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist.

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?

But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

the main thing is to make history not to write it

You can only die once, to make sure it's worth it.

One day my grandson said to me, grandpa were you a hero in the war? And i said to him no I'm not a hero, but I have served in a company full of them.

War. War never changes.

All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along.

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.

History is full of examples of slaughter and victory.