Quotes About Legacy

Ach mein Freund, heiraten Sie nicht, haben Sie keine Kinder. Man gibt ihnen das Leben und sie geben einem den Tod.

The glory of a surgeon is like that of an actor: they live only so long as they are alive, and their talent leaves no trace when they are gone. Actors and surgeons, like great singers too, like the executants who by their performance increase the power of music tenfold, are all the heroes of a moment.

While dreaming of the fulfilment of his schemes, he always overlooked the means of attainment. "When my son has children," said his other, "he will want them born grown up.

What do we know of the world, of business, or men, or life? Our fathers should think for us!

Money brings everything to you; even your daughters.

We are the earth, the land. The tongue that speaks and trips on the names of the dead as it dares to tell these stories of a woman's line. Her people and her dirt, her trees,

Henry Louis Gates's edited The Classic Slave Narratives, which include Jacobs's as well as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, continue to be so important to me.

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Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel A Thousand Acres, reveals what can happen

You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwittingly giving you for a portrait — a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished.

just as tunes once gay inevitably become plaintive when the generation that first sang them has turned to dust?

You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait - a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished. And, though this is an absorbing pursuit, nevertheless, the painters are apt to end pessimists.

A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

I have built a monument more lasting than bronze.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

I shall not wholly die.

He has defiled his father's grave.

A praiser of past time.

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Ya no pedían más belleza e inteligencia como en el primogénito; ¡pero un hijo, un hijo como todos!