Quotes About Legacy

I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.

I wanted to say something profound, that Julian was only human, that he was old, that flesh and blood are frail and weak and that there comes a time when we have to transcend our teachers.

with real greatness, there's a jolt at the end of the wire. It doesn't matter how often you grab hold of the line, or how many people have grabbed hold of it before you. It's the same line. Fallen from a higher life. It still carries some of the same shock.

Probably I'll be dead soon.

There's only a double abyss: between painter and imprisoned bird; between the record he left of the bird and our experience of it, centuries later.

But for all foreseeable time to come- for as long as history was written, until the icecaps melted and the streets of Amsterdam were awash with water- the painting would be remembered and mourned. Who knew, or cared, the names of the Turks who blew the roof of the Parthenon? the mullahs who had ordered the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamiyan? Yet living or dead:their acts stood. It was the worst kind of immortality. Intentionally or no: I had extinguished at light at the heart of the world.

guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.

Live forever.

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

I'm only doing this because I started it and now I have to finish it," he adds. "The next trilogy will be all someone else's vision.

You remember what you told me, Mom? That there are no medals for the completion of a good life? I've been thinking about that. About how no one wins. Like you said, it's impossible to win, because the finish line is death.

I have but one career, and its name is Ike," Mrs. Eisenhower once announced.

One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world.

Peace, and not riches, had been the great legacy which He had left with the eleven the night before His crucifixion.

No interest should weigh on you so much as their eternal interests. No part of them should be as dear to you as that part which will never die.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. … You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you." – Kahlil Gibran, "On Children" from The Prophet

But that goes for most of us, doesn't it? We look blankly at each other. Here I am, here you are. What are we doing here? What do you suppose it's all about? Let's dream on. Yes, that's my Dad and Mum over there on the piano top. My eldest boy is on the mantel piece...I go to work at eight and come home at five-thirty. When I retire they will give me a clock--with my name engraved on the back. Now you know all about me. Go away: I've forgotten you already.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins." "I'm going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.

It's just how human beings are built. Two thousand years later, why do we know the name of Judas and not the soldier who nailed Christ to the cross? In

Cuando los abuelos enfermaron, varios años después de que yo me fuera de Nueva York, mi madre y la suya se habían peleado sobre quién debía hacerse cargo de ellos, y la dureza de aquella pelea, que acabó en los tribunales y no terminó hasta que los dos murieron en 1997, dividió en dos a la familia. McGraw y sus hermanas, incluida Sheryl, ya no me hablaban, porque ellos habían apoyado a su madre, y yo a la mía.

It takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower. You will look back on this time and remember remarkably little of it, excpt the extent to which I tried or did not try.

Two things children shall receive from their parents: roots and wings

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