Quotes About Legacy

Memento mori," the monarch whispered. "Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully.

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por cada locura de los padres, los hijos cometen otra de igual magnitud, pero en el sentido opuesto.

Los más arrogantes en vida son los más temerosos cuando se aproxima la muerte".

Churchill, who warned us: 'The price of greatness…is responsibility.

Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully." -Robert Langdon, Origin.

Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces.

may we never forget the wisdom of Churchill, who warned us: 'The price of greatness…is responsibility.'

Finally, he pulled out Edmond's cell phone and reread the Winston Churchill screen-saver quote about shaping one's own legacy. History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

Ceea ce am facut pentru noi insine moare odata cu noi; cee ace am facut pentru altii si pentru lumea intreaga ramane si este nemuritor.

You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future, a cantilever that holds you, so that you are not alone.

You have to wonder about these settlers of the Great Plains. These white people who in olden times killed the natives and laid claim to this dirt and stuck to it; who stranded their children and grandchildren with a birthright of dust. A collection of clapboard shacks with backyards full of unmown pigweed and junked cars and abandoned swing sets and withered, thirsty trees. Was the genocide worth it?

No doubt in the great scheme of things we are all of us the offspring of murderers. Right?

You know what you learn when you study the legal system? Poor people pass down damage the way rich people pass down an inheritance.

You wanna grow up to be a trivia question? she asked, challenging me. Or do you wanna make a difference in the world?

They had the first hospital in America. The first library and zoo. They had the first newspaper, the first TV and radio broadcasts. Pennsylvania had the first capital of the United States. And most importantly, the banana split was invented here!

Ignorance, as well as wisdom, is handed down from one generation to the next like a precious heirloom.

The final payment for America's cheap food of the last century is still outstanding.

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

You want to be a hero," he repeated. "You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.

I remember that day in early May after Le Vesconte's and Private Pilkington's brief joint burial service, one of the men suggested that we name the small spur of land where they were buried Le Vesconte Point, but Captain Crozier vetoed that idea, saying that if we named every place where one of us might end up buried after the dead person there, we'd run out of land before we ran out of names.

Sol remembered the dream, remembered his daughter's hug, and realized that in the end—when all else is dust—loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith—true faith—was trusting in that love.

No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create