Quotes About Legacy

one day Jean-Guy Beauvoir understood that when people died, they didn't go away. They were very much alive in the minds, in the hearts, in the vivid memories of those left behind. And they were not always easy to live with. Some ghosts had demands.

Cézanne. Riopelle and Lemieux. Kenojuak Ashevak.

All I'd inherit would be outrage. I don't want that. For me or my family.

testament to a life well lived.

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all. As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.

The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.

A man must be sacrificed now and again To provide for the next generation of men.

Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries, to which our simple humanity entitles us.

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives Of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides Into the silent hollow of the past; What is there that abides To make the next age better for the last?

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

If progeny and heroism—descendants and earthly renown—do not enable us to confront death with a greater degree of serenity, if these attributes afford no true access to the good life, toward what source of wisdom then can we turn?

More was lost than mere life and existence.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

A name illustrious and revered by nations.

Did you know the New York Stock Exchange originated in a small café on Wall Street? It was run out of that same café until 1817.

One thing I do know about death. The "better" the person, the more loving and happy and caring, the less of a gap that person's death makes.

When your parents are dead your own death faces you.

well, I guess it is natural when one is dying to sort of sum up what has mattered, what has been beautiful.

Anch'io, pertanto, mi impegnai, per civetteria, a lasciare qualcosa di mio ai posteri [...]; e visto che non avevo a disposizione fatti veri da raccontare —perché purtroppo non mi era mai successo niente di interessante— mi decisi a dire le bugie, ma bugie che si potessero riconoscere molto meglio di quelle che dicono gli altri: perché, infatti, almeno su un punto dirò la verità, se dichiaro che sto mentendo! (Storia vera, I, 4)

Il padre gli aveva regalato un libro con l'incendio di Troia in copertina, e lui, da grande, non trovò pace finché non scoprì i resti dell'antica città di Priamo. Non

History is the daughter of time.

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.