Quotes About Legacy

Remember where you're standing when the spotlight goes off, Lovell warned me once, when our book was a best-seller and the movie it spawned was in theatres. You'll have to find your own way off the stage.

Yeah, history repeats itself; it's called tradition.

I don't want to measure my success in clicks. I don't want my value as a person determined by retweets. When I die, I guarantee I won't care how many Tumblr followers I've had. And why is anyone following me in the first place, as I've yet to determine where I'm going?

But their unsub might have underestimated her. She glanced about now with the predatory stare of a hawk, knowing she had one huge advantage over the victims. She didn't have to slip into the mind of a killer. She was the great-granddaughter of a killer. The granddaughter of a killer. And the daughter of a serial killer. She had survived among them and was well equipped to hunt them.

But what was the purpose of bringing them here and then re-creating her mother's crimes? The word scrawled on Nadine's mirror came to mind: Legacy. If her supervisor wanted to see her break, Crean wouldn't survive it, because evil didn't just live among them. It lived within them. Didn't interviewing Arleen Howler teach Crean that much?

The Moses of her people had fallen in the hour of his triumph. His tragic death was all the more heartbreaking because he had not lived to enjoy the peace he had toiled so long to achieve.

Her greatest legacy could not be measured in garments or in words, but in the wisdom she had imparted, in the lives made better because she had touched them.

Life and Letters (New York: Knopf, 1972); and John E. Washington, They Knew Lincoln (New York: Dutton, 1942). Of course, no work was more important than Elizabeth Keckley's own memoir, Behind the Scenes (New York, G. W. Carleton & Company

When I die, I don't much care if anyone remembers my name. What matters to me is if people's lives are better, and our world is a kinder place because of the work I've done.

As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died.

A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue.

My house will only be a shell for my body. I don't want anyone to breathe my air with me, to disturb my dust.

Sometimes, life is about what happens before death.

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Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.

Jenny Diski lies here. But tells the truth over there",' I instructed. 'Also, I'd like a dove, a winged angel, an anchor and an open book, properly carved on a nice piece of granite.

Wenn Vernunft wirklich feurige Materie wäre, wie von Diogenes als Erstem angenommen wurde, so sähe man es doch am besten daran, wie über die Jahrhunderte hinweg der eine Nachdenkende die Gedanken eines anderen aufnimmt und versucht, ihnen das Eigene hinzuzufügen und sie so am Leben zu halten.

Bis heute setzen die älteren Frauen sich vor Sonnenaufgang, noch in der Nacht, unter freiem Himmel hin und singen: Auch wenn einer reich und vermögend ist, ist der Tod ihm nahe. Der Tod ist größer als die Zeit, er umfängt sie. Gerade jetzt sendet er seine Pfeile aus, Sie gehen nieder in die Mitte der Herde.

instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it... the most corrosive part of this amnesia is a sense that because the nation is not what it was, it can never be anything again.

Everything human … has its period: nations, like mortal men, advance only to decline; dismembered empire and diminished glory mark a crisis in the constitution;

There is a saying in the Middle East that goes something like this: "My grandfather rode a camel, my father drove a car, I travel on a jet, and my grandchild will ride a camel." Not necessarily. The deserts of the Middle East and North Africa have more solar potential per square inch than any other region in the world—more energy potential, in fact, than all of the oil ever extracted from deep beneath its sand dunes. The

A tribe of my own. A daughter. Claire. Precious and frail. Smart like her father. Now twenty years old and a college graduate, ready to begin her master's program with a focus on biology, she is the love of my life. The solitary concern of my heart.

This body of reporting provides an unparalleled glimpse into the shadowy world of extrajudicial assassination that promises to be Barack Obama's most troubling legacy.

The best advice I can give you is this. Church tradition - especially when they do not run counter to the Faith - are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down.