Quotes About Legacy

When they are young, they are feeble in body, and when they get older, they are foolish in mind; they are maintained in their youth in effortless comfort, but pass their old age in laborious squalor, disgraced by their past actions and burdened by their present ones, because in their youth they have run through all that was pleasant, and laid up for their old age what is hard to bear.

The tales told by the dead are fundamentally different, because their stories are not told to conceal their wounds.

With children like this having children of their own, it was no wonder the world was full of children.

Assuming he had knowledge and wealth to leave to his descendants was mere arrogance, Yoshiro now realized.

What do you do for a living? The first thing everyone always wants to know is what I do when I'm not sleeping, what sorts of exams and theses I have to my name as if they wanted to reserve a place in my curriculum vitae for the date of my death. There ought to be a curriculum vitae whose first line is the date of death.

After the death of all living creatures, all our unfulfilled wishes and unspoken words will go on drifting in the stratosphere, they will combine with one another and linger upon the earth like fog. What will this fog look like in the eyes of the living? Will they fail to remember the dead and instead indulge in banal meteorological conversations like: It's foggy today, don't you think?

Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.

To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures to people the tree of your life and give it new branches.

Mamaji remembered, Father dreamed.

To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

It is instructive (and sometimes properly humbling) to give thought to that great stream of tradition within which we stand, rather than fondly imagine we are the first generation to face the challenge the Old Testament sets before us as Christians.

A name is more than just a noun, verb, or adjective. Its your life, your legacy, your journey, sacrifices, and everything youve worked hard for every day of your life as and adolescent, young adult and adult.

Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.

Tamburlaine, the Scourge of God, must die.

Live and die in Aristotle's works.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

Let us live so that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry," Mark Twain

Just because men and women of our era don't live up to the myths doesn't mean no one ever has, or ever will again.

Trenér Vigil se tedy pokoušel najít odpov?? na hlavní otázku: Byl Zátopek velký ?lov?k, který navíc náhodou b?hal, nebo byl takový, protože b?hal?

A hero's one crack at immortality was to be remembered as a champion, and champions don't die dumb. It all hinged on the ability to unleash the tremendous resources of strength, endurance, and agility that many people don't realize they already have.

The heroes of the past are untouchable, protected forever by the fortress door of time—

So simple," he said. "Just move your legs. Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

Let us live so that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry," Mark Twain used to say.