Quotes About Legacy

The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

He was wrong in thinking that by saying 'Nnphnn!' Sunny had been complaining about getting undressed in front of her siblings. Sunny's oversized suit had muffled the word she was really saying, and it was a word that still haunts me in my dreams as I toss and turn each night, images of Beatrice and her legacy filling my weary, grieving brain no matter where in the world I travel and no matter what important evidence I discover.

Momento mori- Remember you will die.

A történések éppen úgy nyomot hagynak egy helyen, miként a tinta a papíron.

Memento Mori' means 'Remember you will die.

Look at everything in plain sight. The bed, the table, every object you see has likely been in the world longer than us, and they'll still be in the world when we're gone. It is the things that have a history, L. Compared to them we are ghosts.

I recommend learning how to write a very good thank-you note. A child who can write a nice thank-you note can turn into a cocaine dealer five years later and be remembered as child who wrote nice thank-you notes.

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Time used to be the panacea for everything, but nowadays our sins are remembered on computers, and random-accessed memories do not fade.

Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

What are we going to do in the face of what we remember? (Langston Hughes)

To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?

The life that I have Is all that I have And the life that I have Is yours. The love that I have Of the life that I have Is yours and yours and yours. A sleep I shall have A rest I shall have Yet death will be but a pause. For the peace of my years In the long green grass Will be yours and yours and yours.

Six feet of land was all that he needed.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

Aristotle doesn't exist for Nietzsche.

The Jew – is the symbol of eternity…. He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind…. The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity.

Kings are the slaves of history.

He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died.