Quotes About Legacy

Mother took the big saw from me and walked over to the orange tree which stood at one end of the totally mutilated rose garden. It was a mature tree standing maybe eight feet tall, producing lots of oranges. It was covered with fruit. The nurse, the cook, and I stood at a kind of breathless attention watching her as she began to saw the trunk of the orange tree! Finally we heard a cracking, splintering sound and the orange tree toppled over into the stubby remains of the rose garden.

I remember [Mommie Dearest] always said, "Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead." My mother died on the morning of May 10, 1977.

When I am dead, my dearest,Sing no sad songs for me;Plant thou no roses at my head,Nor shady cypress tree.Be the green grass above meWith showers and dewdrops wet;And if thou wilt, rememberAnd if thou wilt, forget.

Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.

The light of the years to come, to me; and the law would give them into your charge because you are their mother, no matter what kind of a woman you are.

L'héritage par les enfants ne nécessite, lui, aucune justification. Toute autre dévolution est de surcroît regardée comme "lésant" les enfants, ce qui confirme que ceux-ci sont les héritiers "normaux".

Njeriu duhet ta krijojë vetë castin e vdekjes, nëse duam që t'ia kursejmë vetes një fund të tmerrshëm.

After a few minutes, though, I started to take in what all the attendees were looking at: hundreds and hundreds of historical documents, self-published books, CD-ROMs with lists of lists of names, databases chock-full of people who had once lived and whom no living person now remembered. Everyone in this hall was looking for someone who was gone forever.

If the hyperconnectedness of humanity is true, it would mean that everyone alive today—you, your neighbor, Vladimir Putin, and the emperor of Japan—could count the same Egyptian pharaoh, as well as everyone else alive at the time, as a distant grandparent.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. —Golda Meir

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

The single most important thing anyone needs to know about me," Kate hepburn said, "is that I am totally, completely the product of two damn fascinating individuals who happened to be my parents. I've had a pretty remarkable life, but compared to my mother and father, I'm dull.

There will never be another Camelot," she told White wistfully. "There will be great presidents again—and the Johnsons are wonderful, they've been wonderful to me—but there'll never be another Camelot again.

We dared to think . . . this John Kennedy would live to comb gray hair, with his beloved Carolyn by his side. But like his father," Ted said, his voice catching, "he had every gift but length of years.

Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in 'In Memory of WB Yeats': "You were silly like us.

Art is long and life is short.

Once they're both gone, your parents' house instantly turns into a museum.

One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries' appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.

But to forget completely is an insult. A dishonor to the people who loved you—

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

We spend our youth attempting to change the future, he explained, and the rest of our lives trying to preserve the past.

The bodhi tree has been converted into a marriage tree. The belief is that young women who die before marriage should have a husband in the next world. Their relatives bring a wedding dress and monks to this tree and perform a wedding ceremony. The spirit of the dead woman is married to a famous singer, poet or magician who died many years ago. Their families believe that he'll be a good husband will look after each wife as if she were the only one.

My goal is to live far outside of history as possible. History is a territory where mostly bad things happen to good people.

The ugliest parts of history are the most important parts to remember.