Quotes About Legacy

istoria nu este trecutul, ci ceea ce r?mâne în ciur dup? ce veacurile au trecut prin el

The dead watch us, zealous in old causes.

For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before?

he and the cardinal agree it would be better if Luther had never been born, or better if he had been born more subtle.

O do not weep, she says, for ages past I was and I endure

She's wearing one of the dresses of ... of the people ... who lived here before.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.

Life is brief, art is long.

Life is short, the art long.

Presto o tardi, tutti dobbiamo morire. Quindi non si vive per prolungare la propria esistenza. Si vive per morire in maniera degna.

Those who would later lament Seif and his father's (Qaddafi) regime are like a man who looks at the ashes and says, "I much prefer the fire

At that time I would read passages of Father's books or a newspaper article that I was certain he had read because I wanted to follow a trail he had taken.

History remembers Mussolini as the buffoonish Fascist, the ineffective silly man of Italy who led a lame military campaign in the Second World War, but in Libya he oversaw a campaign of genocide. The

My father is both dead and alive. I do not have a grammar for him. He is in the past, present and future. Even if I had held his hand, and felt it slacken, as he exhaled his last breath, I would still, I believe, every time I refer to him, pause to search for the right tense. I suspect many men who have buried their fathers feel the same. I am no different. I live, as we all live, in the aftermath.

Can you become a man without becoming your father?

So old and persistent did Mother's unhappiness seem that I had never stopped to ask its true cause. Nothing is more acceptable than that which we are born into.

Winning without problem is just victory , but winning with lots of trouble create History ..

Mänsklighetens minne är bristfälligt och orättvist, och våra äldsta och största välgörare ha vi glömt.

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind that I'll never die".

To this day, my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years, she's worked at the Library of Congress. Everyone knows Sameha simply as 'Sami.' Along with 500 miles of shelved books, her closest friendships are cataloged in that library. They are as much the value of work to my mom as is the work itself.