Quotes About Legacy

Although Truman and his advisers still hoped to ameliorate gathering tensions, they made only half-hearted efforts to accommodate the Soviets, or even to negotiate seriously with them. In the third phase, clear by February 1947, the administration hit on a more consistent, clearly articulated policy: containment. The essential stance of the United States for the next forty years, the quest for containment entailed high expectations. It was the most important legacy of the Truman administration.

Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

You'll never live to wed his niece. You'll only die to feed his geese.

At least she's not guilty of integrity, and that's more than I can say of any Bell in four generations except my grandfather and myself.

On Ho Chi Minh's desk in Hanoi on the day he died lay a biography of John Brown.

Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere, leading to their near extermination, and the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass.

Perhaps telling realistically what slavery was like for slaves is the easy part. After all, slavery as an institution is dead. We have progressed beyond it, so we can acknowledge its evils. Slavery's twin legacies to the present are the social and economic inferiority it conferred upon blacks and the cultural racism it instilled in whites. Both continue to haunt our society. Therefore, treating slavery's enduring legacy is necessarily controversial. Unlike slavery, racism is not over yet.

Monuments look static - carved in stone and all - but their meanings change as the present changes and as people enact new rituals at them.

Although each of us comes into the world de novo, we are not really new creatures. We arrive into a social slot, born not only to a family but also a religion, community, and, of course, a nation and a culture.

How people think about the past is an important part of their consciousness.

When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him. ~ Ashanti Proverb

Caesar and Augustus both have months named after them (July for Julius Caesar and August for Augustus).

Your relatives, and mine too, are all dead.

Furthermore, when someone dies, why do they become a saint and suddenly blameless? Because no one wants to hear what he was really like," she said, answering her own question.

Jack's dad had started smoking during the war, so he'd grown up around the habit.

Stanislaus Jean, chevalier de Boufflers, once wrote: "Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume." How can it be that our pleasure is as fleeting as the flower? —DB

Forty-five might seem old to you now, but I promise you it isn't. I'm not yet half as old as my grandmother was when she passed away. I hope I still have a lot of living to do.

Shakespeare = We all make his

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

What a blessing it is, when undue influence does not survive the grave!

Ambos somos insociables, taciturnos, enemigos de hablar a menos que esperemos decir algo que deje boquiabierto a quien escucha y pase a la posteridad con el brillo de un proverbio - Lizzy Bennet.