Quotes About Legacy

There is, I feel, an age at which the individual man would want to stop: you wi l seek the age at which you would desire your Species had stopped. Discontented with your present state for reasons that foretell even greater discontents for your unhappy Posterity, perhaps you would want to be able to go backward in time. This sentiment must be the Eulogy of your first ancestors, the criticism of your contemporaries, and the dread of those who will have the unhappiness to live after you.

Sparta ve Roma yok olduktan sonra, hangi devlet sonsuzcas?na sürüp gitmeyi umabilir? Sürekli bir yönetim biçimi kurmak istiyorsaki onu sonsuz yapmay? düÅŸünmeyelim.

J'étais fait pour vivre, et je meurs sans avoir vécu.

Endlich werden sie Ihnen sagen, daß die Menschen aller Zeiten einander gleichen, daß sie die nämlichen Tugenden und die nämlichen Laster haben, daß man die Alten nur bewundere, weil sie alt sind. Das ist ebenfalls nicht wahr; denn man that ehedem große Dinge mit kleinen Mitteln und heutiges Tages thut man gerade das Gegentheil.

Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off

1. sports 2. opera 3. weapons.

Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people would survive and had wanted them to remember her city and the treasure it held, the treasure that was most valuable of all - herself, her family, and all of the generations of people who had lived in that secret place, their purpose, though they didn't know it, to make sure that human beings did not vanish from the world, no matter what happened above.

All these words, written so long ago, seemed to say to her, Remember us. We were here. We were real.

Mysterious Words from the Past

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour, she'd ask us, when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?

We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Claus myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, Dad said, you'll still have your stars.

We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, Dad said, you'll still have your stars.

Elvis Presley's death was a turning point in news coverage;

If you went back far enough, Uncle Tinsley went on, just about

Mattie cocks her head. "Shame on you, then, Sallie Kincaid. You wanted to come back here to Caywood, assume your place in the Kincaid family, reminding everyone at every possible opportunity that you're the Duke's daughter, but now at the first sign of a family fight, you're saying you want no part of it. If you're truly a Kincaid, you don't have the luxury of sitting this one out.

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten," Dad said, "you'll still have your stars.

Death is a continuation of my life without me...

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

One always dies too soon -- or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up.

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land.

Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.