Quotes About Legacy

Sometimes the objects we hold dear give away who we are even more than the people we love. The glass of the watch had cracked in the hand of Vidal's father at the very moment he died, which his son took as proof that things could survive death if only one kept them clean and in perfect order.

An old man's beliefs matter little. I am the past. You, the future. What are your beliefs?

And it is said, that the princess Moanna returned to her father's kingdom, and reigned there with justice and a kind heart for many centuries. That she was loved by her people and left behind small traces of her time on earth visible only to those who know where to look.

Son los políticos que quieren dejar huella y nada más acarrean destrozos.

When ordinary human beings err, it is sad, but when leaders do, it haunts us for generations.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

El cuerpo del hombre es la casa donde residen sus antepasados muertos

AN oracle had informed King Acrisius of Argos that his grandson would deprive him of his throne and his life. Because of this he had his daughter Danae and Perseus, her child by Zeus, shut in a chest and cast into the sea.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.

The only real tyrants that humanity has known have always been the memories of its dead or the illusions it has forged itself.

To-day the majority of the great men who have swayed men's minds no longer have altars, but they have statues, or their portraits are in the hands of their admirers, and the cult of which they are the object is not notably different from that accorded to their predecessors.

The first generation of immigrants commit themselves to a lifetime of labor, not assimilation—that's the job of the children.

The oldest city in the United States is St. Augustine, Florida, founded by Spaniards in 1565,

Across the street, Mitla Cafe's mascot stares directly at the former Bell's Burgers, stares with a smile, just next to the slogan "Real Mexican Food." Mitla might not have the riches, might never have capitalized on its tacos, but it gets the last laugh. The Taco Bell taco is dead. Long live the taco.

History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.

The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.

word that is not actively used by one generation will not be heard by the next generation and will then be lost forever.

Men have need of history because, without it, the past threatens to overwhelm them.

It seemed to him that people must pass through each other's lives all the time, touch them, be touched by them. Leave something behind, maybe, like a star that fell – you became a memory.

We see only glimpses of history, even our own. It is not entirely ours--in memory, in writing it down, in hearing or in reading it. We can reclaim only part of the past. Sometimes it is enough....

You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are?" -- Sandre to Catriana

You do not honour them by living as if you, too, have died

I cannot speak for those who come after, or what the world will be. We are not made that way.