Quotes About Legacy

Be brave. It was the last thing she said to me in this world, and I wish I'd told her that her courage would always guide me.

Ya hemos pasado por malos tiempos antes y hemos sobrevivido, prosperado incluso. La historia nos demuestra la fortaleza y la perdurabilidad del espíritu humano. Al final, nuestro idealismo, nuestro valor y nuestro compromiso con los demás, con lo que nos une, nos salvarán. En estos tiempos sombríos podemos recurrir a la historia, al legado de aquella generación extraordinaria y a nuestro pasado para sacar fuerzas.

our ability to raise our children is always colored by the lives we've lived before they came along.

You do honor her—and me—every day by being the kind of person we raised you to be.

We must honor the past without turning our backs on the future.

Later that night, after Mamusia had gone to sleep, Tatus found Eva in the small library off the parlor, shelves piled high with all the books the two of them treasured so much. He had taught her to love reading, one of the greatest gifts a parent could give a child, and in doing so, he had opened the world to her.

They are erasing us, and we are helping them. "Because someone should remember. How else will they find their way home?

must honor the past without turning our backs on the future.

because our ability to raise our children is always colored by the lives we've lived before they came along. I

the thing is, parents make all sorts of errors, because our ability to raise our children is always colored by the lives we've lived before they came along.

she looked into the child's eyes and saw a future there, long and beautiful and bright, a future that would go on after Yona herself had passed from the world, a future still unwritten.

One's reward for marching through the decades is a gradual process of erasure.

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.

One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.

it's better to burn out than fade away

There's an old Mexican saying that goes: "Tell me how you die and I'll tell you who you are.

I fear that I may sound gruff to you, but the White man, what Sweet Medicine called the Earth Men, has destroyed both our People and the land with greed and short-sightedness, and in the end will destroy himself as well unless the hearts of your people undergo a spiritual awakening.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

To create a life is to create a life out of the materials that history has given you.

If you wait long enough, all murders will have lost their scream, all bloodlines forgotten, all dynamite broken, all storms settled, all bones cleaned of the memory of sin.