Quotes About Legacy

History will catch up with us. It isn't dead more than we are. It lives in and upon us, parasitically, like the bacteria in our intestines without which we would die. If you want to see the future, keep looking steadily behind you, because the future, no matter how we may pretend we don't know it, is history.

Non c'è conquista che abbia senso, non c'è guerra che valga la pena di combattere. Alla fine, l'unica terra che ci rimane è quella in cui verremo sepolti.

Esta es la verdadera gloria, wanax Odiseo; el llanto de quien nos ama cuando dejamos este mundo.

Me gusta pensar que mis palabras permanecerán vivas una vez que mi voz se haya apagado.

La victoria tiene muchos padres, pero la derrota es huérfana.

the only thing that grows over time is the glory of those who have lived honourably.

There is no conquest that has any meaning, there is no war worth fighting. In the end, the only earth left to us is the earth in which we are buried.

We're still eating the leftovers of World War II.

It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.

Its vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanitys continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun.

We are progeny of not just the Earth, but of the cosmos. And as its progeny it is our duty use the best of our ability and continue that.

Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.

We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.

Les livres sont ce que nous avons de meilleur en cette vie, ils sont notre immortalité.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

Perciò ho stabilito" concludeva "che il passato bisogna scordarselo, ce lo portiamo dietro ma non ci deve pesare. I morti che ci hanno fatto del bene, si ricompensano guardando in faccia i vivi.

A people who are united and determined about its aim create history.

If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.

Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.

If this word should turn out to be a 'Te moriturum saluto,' perhaps it will brighten the dark moments a little to think how you have meant to someone more than anything ever has or ever will. What you have striven for will not end in nothing, all that you have done and been will not be wasted, for it will be a part of me as long as I live, and I shall remember, always.

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.

One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child. He was the Fourth to follow the Star. His gift was a secret. The rest of his journey is unknown.

Enormous cemeteries existed among sedentary civilizations, where the weight of the past grew larger than any present time.