Quotes About Legacy

But history does matter. There are lines connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Serbs and the Rwandans. They are obviously morbid. Really, how much genocide can one sentence handle? You get the point. Besides, my grandparents' story deserves to be told, regardless of their nationalities.

Leaders lead for the joy of creating something bigger than themselves.

I do not think I have left my country. I think it has traveled with me

She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living.

Such was the past, after all: it left the present cluttered with objects the survivors were immune to.

He knew that we take what the universe gives us, and we either get the most out of it or we don't, but in the end we all go out the same way.

SIXTEEN YEARS AGO IN HISTORY

Perhaps modern esteem for these figures serves as a reminder that, though statesmen may have to struggle mightily to advance their cause, and though they may lose on an issue or come out on the wrong side in the judgment of history, their principled determination is sufficient to win them a place in people's hearts, long after they are gone.

Americans have viewed their former presidents almost like a fourth branch of government.

I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.

singing the songs of the old masters. Fats Waller's 'Ain't That A Shame', Chuck Berry's

Don't known how I'll be remembered, but I hope it is with that kind of fondness, the selfless guy who took lots of pictures but was never in them. Perfect.

I am Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg," said the holographic image, who had ink stains all over his fingertips.

Names like Christopher Hill, Geoffrey de Ste Croix, Guy Bois, Albert Soboul, Edward Thompson, James McPherson and D D Kosambi spring to mind.

Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long upon the land.

We get one shot at this thing called life. Let's make it matter.

11) Trump Will Go Down in History Trump will go down in history But the good news is That he will go down And we still will be standing

Ahora las preguntas claves son más profundas y más retadoras: ¿quién soy? ¿Para qué estoy en este mundo? ¿Qué tipo de persona voy a ser? Es posible que yo desempeñe muchos trabajos durante mi carrera, pero a medida que paso de uno a otro –incluso de una compañía o profesión a otra–, ¿qué queda? Quedo yo.

Shared history was the coin of the realm.

The dead are apparitions that both haunt and guide us. And maybe they've earned it. Most times, they can teach us our own history better than any book.

I think back to my father, and the fact that the dead are the only extinguished lights we can never really see again.

That's how you know you're The Money—when you build so many rooms it's impossible to fill them, no matter how much you procreate

in all of human history, three things never went out of style. Graffiti, keep-out signs, and statues of ourselves.

Sometimes I don't think I've done anything to leave my mark in this world. I'm the kind of person the world leaves a mark on.