Quotes About Legacy

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a unique and exalted position in the history of his native land, which might well be proud of his great genius and undying achievements in the interest of humanity.

All of these years of my service towards mankind did not bring me nothing but assaults and humiliations.

My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied: 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.

What are you looking at, grandfather? he asked with curiosity. The old man raised his head and smiled sadly. At my life flowing and disappearing, son, flowing and disappearing. Don't worry, grandfather, it knows where it is going–toward the sea, everyone's life flows toward the sea. The old man sighed. Yes, my son, that is why the sea is salty—from the many tears. He turned back to the flowing stream and did not speak again.

Leave nothing for death but a burned-out castle

An old fisherman heard all this and shook his head. "This is what happens to those who don't get married," he said. "All they want to do is save the world, by hook or by crook. The sperm rises to their heads and attacks their brains. For God's sake, all of you: get married, let your forces loose on women and have children in order to calm yourselves!

We have but a single moment at our disposal. Let us transform that moment into eternity. No other form of immortality exists

They had no fear of death, and whoever has no fear of death—the centurion had often meditated on this here in the East—whoever has no fear of death is immortal.

And I am glad, because although no one else in the world remembers him now, he will live inside me as long as I live. We shall die together. This grandfather was the first to make me wish not to die - so that the dead within me should not die. Since then, many departed dead ones have sunk, not into the grave, but into my memory, and I know now that as long as I live they shall live too.

The cry is not yours. It is not you talking, but innumerable ancestors talking with your mouth. It is not you who desire, but innumerable generations of descendants longing with your heart.

La ce te uiti, mosule? Batranul a ridicat capul si a zambit cu tristete: - La viata mea, care curge la vale, fiule, a raspuns; la viata mea, care curge si se duce...

He did not die. The only ones who die are those who are too late to become immortal. He was not too late. God granted him time.

They don't know that I'm dead, and my ghost is holding on.

I am an old man, and I am dying...Will you remember me, Jacob? I promise, one day, I will join you, Mr. Gold. Mr. Gold's laughter sounded like a trumpet and brought light to the corners of the room.

La medicina es como una lenta obra de albañilería. Somos afortunados si en el plazo de una vida podemos poner un solo ladrillo. Y si podemos explicar la enfermedad, alguien que aún no ha nacido estará en condiciones de conseguir su curación.

que la iglesia conservaba para usarlas sucesivamente en las casas

Rob dio al niño el nombre judío de Mirdin ben Jesse

the countries that have developed economically are those which were not colonized by the West; every country that was colonized by the West is a total wreck.

But from the point of view of the masters of mankind, it doesn't matter much—"as long as we make plenty of profit tomorrow, who cares if our grandchildren won't have a world to live in?

The new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. This is not pointed at anyone. —Max Planck

Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.