Quotes About Legacy

Although this poetry collection was first published in 1855, when Whitman was 36 years old, the poet spent his whole life revising the poems in several editions.

Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arouse! for you must justify me. I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future, I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.

And while I paus'd it came to me that what he really sang for was not there only, Nor for his mate nor himself only, nor all sent back by the echoes, But subtle, clandestine, away beyond, A charge transmitted and gift occult for those being born.

O LIVING always, always dying! O the burials of me past and present, O me while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever; O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not, I am content;) O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look at where I cast them, To pass on, (O living! always living!) and leave the corpses behind.

When I Read the Book When I read the book, the biography famous,   And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life?   And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life?   (As if any man really knew aught of my life,   Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life,   Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections   I seek for my own use to trace out here.)

That you are here - that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Sem munkát-megtakarító gépet nem alkottam, Sem felfedezésem nincsen, Sem gazdag örökséget nem hagyok kórház, vagy könyvtár alapítására, Sem bátor tettek emlékét Amerika szolgálatában, Sem szellemi, sem irodalmi sikert, sem könyvet a könyves-polc számára, Csupán a levegÅ'ben hullámzó néhány dalom marad itt, Társaknak és szerelmeseknek.

When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life? And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life? (As if any man really knew aught my life, Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life, Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections I seek for my own use to trace out here.)

The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.

The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.

The storyteller: he is the man who could let the wick of his life be consumed completely by the gentle flame of his story

Every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably.

Die Echtheit einer Sache ist der Inbegriff alles von Ursprung her an ihr Tradierbaren, von ihrer materiellen Dauer bis zu ihrer geschichtlichen Zeugenschaft.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

At the entrance, a mailbox: last opportunity to make some sign to the world one is leaving.

After all, what is man but a hoard of ghosts? Oaks, that were acorns, that were oaks...

Each of us is born with a history already in place

To come right down to it, if I take my kind of things in which I believe, then add to that the kind of temperament that I have to whatever I believe in-- these are ingredients which make it just about impossible for me to die of old age. -- The autobiography of Malcom X

Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

It is tasteless to prolong life artificially," he told Dukas. "I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

The computer and the Internet are among the most important inventions of our era, but few people know who created them.

When part of this ecosystem was lacking, such as for John Atanasoff at Iowa State or Charles Babbage in the shed behind his London home, great concepts ended up being consigned to history's basement. And when great teams lacked passionate visionaries, such as Penn after Mauchly and Eckert left, Princeton after von Neumann, or Bell Labs after Shockley, innovation slowly withered.

Jobs pointed out as we walked in front of his old house.

He emphasized that you should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.