Quotes About Legacy

You couldn't look at children and hope to see much of their parents beyond their physical appearance, and not always that. They came as Wordsworth said, trailing clouds of glory. Along with a few clouds of other things not quite so glorious.

life was worthwhile enough, despite their errors, that when they died a Speaker should tell the truth for them.

raise them up, and watch them do the same thing, generation after generation, so that when you die you know you are permanently a part of the great web of life. That you are not a loose thread, snipped off.

Here is the meaning of life: ...to make babies with her, with him, or to find them some other way, but then to raise them up, and watch them do the same thing, generation after generation, so that when you die you know you are permanently a part of the great web of life. That you are not a loose thread, snipped off. (Anton)

Cambiar al mundo es bueno para aquellos que quieren su nombre en los libros. Pero ser feliz... eso es para aquellos que escriben sus nombres en las vidas de los demás y retienen los corazones de otros como el tesoro más preciado.

Everything I hated in a commander, and I'm doing it. Is it some law of human nature you inevitably become whatever your first commander was? I can quit right now, if that's so.

But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear. Valentine

it's not unusual in history for the solution to one problem to become the root of the next one.

But how can you be God, if Justice is more powerful than you?" I am his daughter, five hundred generations from him. Shouldn't the children of God learn something in that time? Lared

This wasn't about killing Bean—that was just a bonus. It was about getting Bean's babies.

Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. Be of good heart, cry the dead artists out of the living past. Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing. Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity: General George S. Patton.

That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.

it seemed to me that he had learned not only to destroy what was left behind, but also to poison what was to come.

I had always hated Nixon, not just for obvious reasons, but it seemed to me that he had learned not only to destroy what was left behind, but also to poison what was to come.

To live on in the memory of others means that you do not die.

If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living

Tzu-chang[21] asked whether we can know what is to be ten generations hence. The Master said, The Yin[22] took over the manners of the Hsia; the harm and the good that they did them can be known. The Chou took over the manners of the Yin; the harm and the good that they did them can be known. And we may know what shall be, even an hundred generations hence, whoever follows Chou.