Quotes About Legacy

Pentru ca noi am reusit sa ne creem chiar aici, pe pamant, un clopot de sticla cu gravitatie zero. Am eliminat sarcinile pentru care corpul nostru a fost creat, iar acum platim pentru asta. Toti marii ucigasi ai lumii occidentale - bolile de inima, atacul cerebral, diabetul, hipertensiunea si nenumaratele forme de cancer - erau complet necunoscute stramosilor nostri. Nu aveau acces la medicina, dar cunoasteau cateva pasiente magice care o inlocuiau cu succes.

if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

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.

Respect the past; you never know how it may affect you.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Pell thought both aristocrats and big businessmen to be "totally selfish," as Arthur Schlesinger, jr., has put it, "but the aristocrat at least thought of his grandsons, while the bourgeois thought only of himself."2

The corps of Great Composers who provided the works that are played here are all dead; living musicians may have their works played here from time to time, as a kind of courtesy, but it is the dead who command the loyalty of audiences, and it is their works that are played here over and over again with loving note-for-note accuracy.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show -- listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.

The story did not end at the tree. For you and your people, that is where the story begins.

Master Richard carries so much on his young shoulders, the normal troubles associated with adolescence in addition to sharing Master Bruce's crusade. I only wonder if he knows how casually he is throwing away the years of his youth. And if in the end, he will feel it was worth it.

This is not intended as a record or a chronicle, but the poetry of fossils, a reminiscence of the end of civilization. The dinosaurs left behind almost no trace of themselves. A few bones preserved in the amber, the contents of their stomachs, their waste. I only hope that we may leave behind something more than they did.

Voltaire gave us his classic summary: "It was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." Its legacy, however, endured. The ancient obsession with Italy, the costly conflicts with the papacy, and the continuous resistance of German nobles to any strong central authority had made the empire essentially ungovernable for more than five centuries.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.

The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.