Quotes About Legacy

We are all descended from monsters.

A fé lhe ensina aquilo que lhe cumpre fazer. A memória lhe mostra aonde vão parar todas estas coisas, trazendo-lhe presente à lembrança a morte daqueles que ela viu desfrutar dessas frivolidades, e como algumas foram súbitas e quão depressa foram esquecidas por todos;

Everything passes—Robust artAlone is eternal.The bustSurvives the city.

No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.

For Art alone is great: The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.

Our Lord made me understand that the only true glory is that which lasts for ever; and that to attain it there is no necessity to do brilliant deeds, but rather to hide from the eyes of others, and even from oneself, so that "the left hand knows not what the right hand does."[1]

Concepts such as age, place of birth and parentage can only have meaning within the context of personal history.

Each and every generation must discover its own mission or drown into the well of oblivion

Once upon a time..They came from Europe, yielding swords, they robbed, raped, conquered Africa , and gave us The Ten Commandments.

Remember, too, that the trees for the wood that was used to build this piano were most likely planted in the late sixteenth century.

On a visit to the Steinway showroom in New York, I saw Henry Steinway, the last member of the family to be connected with the company, take out a felt-tip pen and sign the painted metal frame of a piano for an enthusiastic customer. It was like watching a baseball player sign a ball, or an author his book, and seemed in keeping with our age of celebrity.

My name is Thanos, and my name means Immortality.

It doesn't matter if you work at a fast food joint or if you are the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Your job title does not define your purpose. The size of your paycheck does not make you worthy. What makes you valuable is your contribution to the world and the legacy that you leave behind. Stop defining yourself by what you do, and start defining yourself by who you are!

And In the End, the Love We Take Is Equal To the Love We Make.

Siblings are branches of a tree some stay close some go in different directions they fruit, grow bigger till they die and fall

Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.

I made it a point to think of them to keep them alive in my heart.

It seemed that our family had been on this land for thousands of years; that we had sprung from the earth, born of its flesh like a tree or a flower, deep-rooted, not by our feet, but by our hearts.

Tuning the lyre and handling the harp are no accomplishments of mine, but rather taking in hand a city that was small and inglorious and making it glorious and great.

It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.

Tenía la vida por delante. Siempre tenemos la vida por delante. Lo que queda de ella.

The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.

Aufgearbeitet wäre die Vergangenheit erst dann, wenn die Ursachen des Vergangenen beseitigt wären. Nur weil die Ursachen fortbestehen, ward sein Bann bis heute nicht gebrochen.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.