Quotes About Legacy

Well Socrates is 70 when he dies. He's been allowed to philosophise freely in the city for almost 50 years. He clearly was - genius is an overused word - but he clearly did have something of the genius about him.

After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.

I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life.

High Water Everywhere" by Charlie Patton. If you have a hard time making out the lyrics, you're not alone—even Son House (who, along with Howlin' Wolf, was influenced by Patton)

Bob Dylan's 2001 tribute to Charlie Patton.

Typing on an actual typewriter on paper is only a softer version of chiseling words into stone.

So much history buried underneath. We spend our lives to try to dig it out, but always the present buries it again.

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

De eerste is Gerard Walschap, verre vriend en trouwe fan. Schrijver van stavast, geen groot talent voor toneelteksten, des te meer voor krachtig vertellen en stevige polemiek. 'Dag mensen, dat 't welga.' Dat staat in bijna minuscule letters op zijn graf van natuurtegels. Al bij het ingaan van het eerste oorlogsjaar had hij me gewaarschuwd, onder vier ogen en in bedekte termen. 'Doe gelijk iedere Belg al eeuwen doet. Buig mee zonder te buigen.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

We all basically live in a world that we define by the people who have disappeared.

Citizen Alexandre Dumas, he was thenceforth known only by the name—strongly compromising at that time, especially among the people who had given it to him—of Mr. Humanity.

eclipsed and forgotten by Mussolini's brief but disastrous alliance with Hitler.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

Believe it or not each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die

Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?

A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion seconds ago, the Beatles changed music. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning. —Robert Goizueta, chief executive of the Coca-Cola Company, April 1997

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.

The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.

And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget that history puts a saint in every dream.

On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick.

The studio is torn down, all the people who played on it are dead, the instruments have been sold off. But you are listening to a moment that happened in time sixty years ago and you are hearing it just as sharp as when it was made. That remains an amazing thing to me.