Quotes About Legacy

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Nothing last forever, only the joy and happiness that turns into memories, turns eternal.(c)

I'll always be there, Anna, in every ship you see sailing past. I'll be the wind in its sail.

My words are the words of my father, and the words of my father are the words of my grandfather, and the words of my grandfather are the words of my great-grandfathers - Hasan and Husayn; and their words are the words of Ali, and the words of Ali are the words of the Prophet of Allah; and the words of the Prophet are the words of Allah.

Your body is on loan from the planet. All the countless numbers of people who have lived on this planet before you and me have all become topsoil, and so will you. This planet will collect back atom by atom what it has loaned to you.

Sí, los Fundadores nos salvaron del país podrido y pusieron orden —continúa Pascual—. Pero ¿quién nos salva de sus descendientes? ¡Ahora somos sus esclavos!

Esto es como el circo Romano, como la inauguración del Anfiteatro Flavio por el emperador Tito. Mas de dos mil años de diferencia y nada ha cambiado.

Mi nombre artístico será Joaquín Sabina –dijo el cantante–. Es el apellido de mi madre.

Es que hacemos las cosas sólo para recordarlas? ¿Es que vivimos sólo para tener memoria de nuestra vida? Porque sucede que hasta la esperanza es memoria y que el deseo es el recuerdo de lo que ha de venir.

there is no greater way I can think of to honor those people who've died than to tell their story ...

I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and what is it that leads girls certain directions in life. I think a lot of that goes back to what kind of father they had, and so it makes me want to be the best dad I can possibly be.

Like father like son, like mother like daughter!

Isn't that the last straw; for not only did we have to suffer the unspeakableness of slavery, but the satisfaction to be had from "We made you bastards rich" is taken away, too.

è necessario vivere più a lungo di chi potrebbe dire qualcosa sul nostro conto, per non lasciargli l'ultima parola (76).

The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.

She drops the Happy Grenades when she dies. Tip

on D. W. Griffith] There is not a man working in movies, or a man who cares for them, who does not owe Griffith more than he owes anybody else.

he still thought I was accusing him or calling him to account. He said, "People *do* grow. You may not think much of *me*, but my children will be great!" I said , "They will be black and blind or passing for white and self-blinded. Those are the only choices.

Mortmain is an old French word that should be tattooed on the inside of any historical novelist's skull. This wonderful and terrible word means "dead hand." Its definition is: "The influence of the past regarded as controlling the present." (It is also used as a legal term with the same basic meaning.

1. Per educare occorre proporre adeguatamente il passato.

Doesn't every town in America have an old-timer called The Professor? That duffer who knows everything and everybody, as long as they are dead.

Tell me," Big Angel said. "Did I do anything good in your life?" "You gave me the books." It was instantaneous. "Yes. All the books--that was pretty good. I gave you good ones." "And bad ones." "True. But all books are good, man. Imagine no books.

The women posed for snapshots. Dozens of snapshots. . . . They imagined that, long after the soldiers had become old, perhaps even after they'd died, someone would come to wonder about these women holding up rifles or tommy guns or donuts and laughing with their grandfathers in front of the big dark truck.