Quotes About Legacy

Og silungur gengur þar á milli beina, fiskur sem enginn vill sjá á borðum hér. Hér hafa sextán kynslóðir búið í svengd og sjö þúsund kynslóðir af bleikju dáið í hárri og feitri elli. Hungrið er vofa sem alin er á hjátrú sem nærist á heimsku sem sefur hjá trú. Sá sem fyrstur veiðir í þessu vatni mun eta silung með landnámsbragði.

The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.

more than 150 years later, these crude breastworks are still in place). At dusk the men picked the meatiest of their stringy mules and slaughtered them for a thin gravy dinner. From that day on, this forlorn spot would be known as Mule Hill.

What a sordid tradition of violence we have in our country—and what an alarming record of assassinations and assassination attempts.

Alvin Josephy

Before us they planted, and now we eat what they have planted. We too must plant, so that those after us will likewise eat.

Act for your world as if you will live forever, and act for your Hereafter as if you are going to die tomorrow.

I don't want them to forget Ruth, I just want them to remember me!

History has a way of doing that. People appreciate it more the longer it lasts.

Baseball needs me because it needs somebody to stir the pot, and I need it because it's my life. It's the means I have to make a little difference in the world.

You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.

Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have -- keep swinging.

Once the record was mine, I had to use it like a Louisville Slugger. I believed, and still do, that there was a reason why I was chosen to break the record. I feel it's my task to carry on where Jackie Robinson left off, and I only know of one way to go about it. It's the only way I've ever had of dealing with things like fastballs and bigotry -- keep swinging at them.

Look around the stadium. There's not one memento of what I did. There's nothing about what I did in this stadium, but they've got a statue of Ty Cobb sliding into a base.

I got a thrill out of the home run that won the pennant, and when I hit No. 500, and I thought this would mean something extra special to me ... I felt good all day long, until Rose tied the game. Losing just took the edge off of it. It's just another home run.

No matter what happens the rest of my life, I don't think I'll ever hit another home run. So wherever people want to rank me is fine.

I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit,

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive.

My wiedzieli?my, ?e trzeba umiera? publicznie, na oczach ?wiata.

Wschodnioeuropejscy ?ydzi stworzyli barwny ?wiat. Mieli j?zyk i literatur?, mieli swoich cadyków i bankierów, uczonych i rzemie?lników, socjalistów i chasydów, swoje dania, melodie, ?arty, stroje, westchnienia, gesty i sposób trzymania g?owy. Mieli "rzewny czar",który bra? si? z mieszanki intelektualizmu i mistycyzmu. Nie ma tego ?wiata. Nieliczni ocaleni nie daj? wyobra?enia o nim.

Przecie? nie piszemy historii. Piszemy o pami?taniu.