Quotes About Legacy

Consider me, Descended also From the Mystery.

People are absolutely haunted by [history]. You can see it at the swap meets.

No day shall erase you from the memory of time. An inscription on a wall from 911 by Virgil Aeneid.

I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.

I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

I love you. Never forget that. Never forget...me.

son. Kareem blew us off, but you were very nice." The son was a grown man, a successful attorney in Los Angeles. His father was the CEO of the company Magic was soliciting. "My son is 29 years old now," the man said, "and he still has that picture on his wall." As Magic walked out of the meeting with a new multimillion-dollar client in his portfolio, he thought to himself, "See, Kareem? It could have been you.

One of the reasons wars go on is because of the price both sides have paid in blood. After a while, even if the original reason no longer matters, you keep on fighting because you don't want all those deaths to be in vain.

Much has been written about Jack Welch's style of management—especially his toughness and bluntness, which some people call ruthlessness. We would argue that the core of his management legacy is that he forced realism into all of GE's management processes, making it a model of an execution culture.

Henry Moore: You need to hold questions that cannot be fully completed or lived out within the span of your lifetime.

The crowned heads that leaned over his cradle were members of his family. Charlemagne was a direct ancestor; among his uncles and cousins were Kaiser Wilhelm II, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Ferdinand I of Rumania, Gustav VI of Sweden, Constantine I of Greece, Haakon VII of Norway and Alexander I of Yugoslavia. Europe's crises were family problems.

One blessing, one sire, one womb Their being gave. They had one mortal sickness And share one grave Far from an England they never knew.

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

I'd like to play Matt Damon's daddy. He's a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I'd like to play his dad one day.

When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.

NED: I belong to a culture that includes Proust, Henry James, Tchaikovsky, Cole Porter, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Marlowe, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Tennessee Williams, Byron, E. M. Forster, Lorca, Auden, Francis Bacon, James Baldwin, Harry Stack Sullivan, john Maynard Keynes, Dag Hammarskjöld . . . These are not invisible men.

There is only one Long Day's Journey into Night. There is only one Death of a Salesman

Our Hero welcomed Death.

That's how I want to be defined: as one of the men who fought the war.

Literature's father figures can only loom, intimidate, and inspire for so long before they must be slain by their offspring.

It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live." ~spoken by Augustus McCrae

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