Quotes About Legacy

You know, Pete Conrad died on a motorcycle." "Who's Pete Conrad?" "The third man to walk on the moon.

Joining the ranks of some notables who had penned powerful stuff behind bars. Saint Paul, the apostle. John Bunyan. Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Martin Luther King Jr.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Charles Darwin's early academic record was so poor that his father predicted he would be a disgrace to his family.

Should Shakespeare have stayed home in Stratford-on-Avon to help rear his family and not have abandoned them for London, the city that made him?

But his sister, Nannerl, in a short biography in 1800, defended Mozart's memory, saying "It is certainly easy to understand that a great genius, who is preoccupied with the abundance of his own ideas, and who soars from earth to heaven with amazing speed, is extremely reluctant to lower himself to noticing and dealing with mundane affairs.

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

My lands are where my dead lie buried.

I NAME THIS LAND TOMORROW, FOR IT SHALL LAST FOREVERMORE!

Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.

I resent the hell out of the politicians and generals who force events on us that structure our lives, that dictate the memories we'll have when we're old.

We don't speak at night anymore, but she's left me her legacy nonetheless--a love for the sea and the smoothness of pearls, an appreciation of music and words, sympathy for the underdog, and a disregard for boundaries.

Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it an interesting one, don't you? You wanna be able to tell her some adventures, some excitements, some something. How you live your life, little one, is a gift for those who come after you, a kind of inheritance.

Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll live forever. But when the end is near you'll realize you've been believing that all along. It's like getting caught with your pants down. That's why you gotta live, little one. Yeah stop and smell them roses.

Sobre audrey hapburn: Si hoy en dia sigue sindo un icono es por que una vez que encontro su look le fue fiel el resto de su vida. No cayo en la moda se reinventaba a si misma cada temporada. Adoraba la moda , pero la utilizaba como una herramienta para complementar su imagen Dijo de ella su hijo sean

Su misión en la tierra ya no era vivir, sino organizar el mundo de los difuntos. Eugenia de Montijo

Ella ha desaparecido y con ella toda una época… Se cierra el período glorioso que simbolizaba su nombre».

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

The important question to ask is why these bodies are allowed to exist. If a country such as Spain allowed a repressive body like the Inquisition to exist for four hundred years, it is not because the Inquisition forced itself on the Spanish nation. It is because the Spaniards allowed it to exist.

Parents are temporary custodians, keeping watch and offering love and trying to leave the child better than they found him.

they could move on, try to forge relationships with one another that weren't about that blasted inheritance. Walker

It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.

Most descriptions of Mimi that have appeared in print were based on interviews with her – she outlived John by eleven years. She loved to fuel the image of the stern but loving aunt who provided the secure backdrop to John's success. But that wasn't the Mimi I knew. She battered away at John's self-confidence and left him angry and hurt.

George's father was a bus driver and he was planning to buy him his own bus.