Quotes About Legacy

That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!

Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will tear them down with impatient hands; and hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.

Our hands are hot and raw with the stones we have laid, We have built a tower of stone high into the sky, We have built a city of towers.

Even in 1922, on Everest, the expedition leader, General Charles Bruce, in a confidential summary, described Mallory as 'a great dear but forgets his boots on all occasions.

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

Where have you gone, O noble lords of the plain? Time has erased your footprints with the passing seasons' rain. Your voices have now been silenced to no longer echo in the hills. The battles are but memories when you watched your lifeblood spill. It is we who are the losers; it is we who bear the shame. O mighty Blackfoot warrior, only your legend remains the same. Constance O'Banyon

Piatra face ca un mormânt ori o cas? s? dureze mai mult decât este firesc. Ceea ce dureaz? mai mult? vreme devine muzeu ori închisoare. Ajunge o povar?. Un obstacol. Împiedic? s? se dezvolte o via?? nou?.

I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

Chang nodded sagely. "My father insisted on it. He said, 'You may be proud of being a scanner. I am sorry you are not a man. Conceal your defects.' So I tried. I wanted to tell the old boy about the up-and-out, and what we did there, but it did not matter. He said, 'Airplanes were good enough for Confucius, and they are for me too.' The old humbug!

KENnEDY SHOT. OSWALD SHOT TOO.

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

Truthfully, I'm still Corey Hart, Dad, first.

What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.

Think of your forefathers and posterity.

Roses die, candles go out, tears dry. The memory of the page outlasts them all.

That which is so universal as death must be a blessing. And none may escape its benediction.

Per secoli gli italiani non sono riusciti ad avere nemmeno una memoria comune. Una storia così frammentata non gli ha permesso di elaborare una forma politica all'altezza della cultura, della civiltà, delle straordinarie personalità che sono riusciti a esprimere.

Tattoo the pristine flesh What is permanent anyway? This ink only lasts 'til the grave, Time will decompose That which we did compose.

Books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when you and I are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive.

My little hobby. Book Collecting. And yet, old friends, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive. -Bulldog

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.