Quotes About Legacy

Die Hochzeitsfeierlichkeiten begannen. Der Tote ist vergessen, der Lebende hat sein Land und seine Ehre in Besitz genommen. Das war bei ihm gut aufgehoben.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.

Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.

If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.

Socially, politically, economically, militarily, culturally, racially, sexually, demographically, even mythologically, World War II was the crucible that forged modern America. It was the transforming event that reshaped all who lived through it, and continues to affect those born after it. Only the American Revolution that created the new nation and the Civil War that preserved the Union rank with it in importance.

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

Heather Brewer

Putting a body in a box as a keepsake for mortals to cling to long after everything that was that person is gone - it turns my stomach. Graveyards are for the living, not the dead.

The Spanish were the first to arrive on this island

he didn't believe much in funerals—or in massive monuments to the dead, caskets worth thousands and thousands of dollars or any other such thing.

And maybe when he died, he didn't think, "Is this all I get?" the way we, the narrow-minded living, might imagine, in the face of such a premature death. Maybe he thought, "I lived a rich life. I embraced what I was given, and it was incredible.

All children are really orphans. At heart, a child has nothing to do with its parents, its background, its last name, its gender, its family trade. It is a brand-new person, and it is born with the only legacy that all individuals inherit when they open their eyes in this world: the inalienable right to be free.

Broadening Horizons for Over a Century,

Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations.

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

I put my lilies in front of Sam's plaque. I didn't want him to rest in peace. I wanted him to bounce around in death as he had in life, fearless, goofy, and fleet.

They wanted me to stay because they wanted me around: I was their direct link to Sam; I was his memento. And they were probably afraid that I might shoot myself, left alone with all Sam's things.

It's your story, sweetheart. Not just your story to pass on. Your story to make up as well. Over time, stories change; they shift; they become something new but with elements of the original and elements of what's to come.

Producing obituaries is a way of creating a legacy to remember important people of our times and their contributions. No matter whose obituary it is, I look for something inspirational about each person.

Unraveling life lessons from just the past few years would take many more years. Lessons unlearned would pass with me, when I went through that door, to be completed in some future lifetime.

Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there.

If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.