Quotes About Legacy

I didn't say I'm walking away. I said I was stepping down as chairman. I won't walk away. I'll be carried away.

I realise I am stepping into the shoes of a hugely respected editor in the shape of Alexandra Shulman, someone who has chosen to leave at the top of their game with a legacy of 25 years of success.

Stepping down after 18 years as the head football coach here at Oklahoma, and I feel like I've absolutely been the luckiest, most fortunate guy in the world.

This stadium is the history of football, the most important arena in Italy. Stepping into San Siro always has an effect on you.

I'll never forget the moment in 1985 when I was riding my motorbike down the King's Road and I first saw the words David Linley on the sign on my first shop. I nearly came off my bike. It was so incredibly public; I suddenly realised there was to be no stepping away from my work because my name was all over it.

I didn't take the Porto job nor the Chelsea job because Jose made the same steps.

I would love to be the African leader that steps down, that overthrows this idea of a Big Man ruler. I don't want to stay in office forever.

People have often asked me to do a remake of Awara' with Rishi Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor. When I took the idea few steps forward, we all got scared. Where will we get another Prithviraj Kapoor and Raj Kappor? Where will I get composers like Shankar-Jaikishen?

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

We do not call ourselves 'Native American,' because our blood and people were here long before this land was called the Americas. We are older than America can ever be and do not know the borders.

The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.

History's lessons don't expire after a few decades.

Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.

Fifty years later, as the commission's last surviving member, Harris often commented on its legacy. See, for example, the op-ed that he co-authored for the New York Times, "The Unmet Promise of Equality," February 28, 2018.

The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

As a consequence, very tall parents tend to have tall children, but not as tall (on average) as they are themselves;

Each in his narrow cell forever laid,The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Can storied urn, or animated bustBack to its mansion call the fleeting breath?Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust,Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death?

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown. Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own.

Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to Fortune and Fame unknown.

It is important to keep old things, he insisted, because it was through them alone that new things could be judged.

She seemed to be gathering something from it, my mother's thoughts and memories, as if such things lay like a film of dust upon the objects we left behind.

Only a man harrowing clodsIn a slow silent walkWith an old horse that stumbles and nodsHalf asleep as they stalk.Only thin smoke without flameFrom the heaps of couch grass:Yet this will go onward the sameThough dynasties pass.Yonder a maid and her wightCome whispering by;War's annals will cloud into nightEre their story die.