Quotes About Legacy

Having navigated himself into unchallenged authority, he used it to turn a failing republic—as if it were a Virgilian vine—into an empire that flourishes

Seguimos siendo la piedra angular de ese arco de libertad».[103]

WHAT IF Stalin himself was the problem, though, and communism might be salvaged with different leadership? The men who sought to succeed him all believed the diagnosis to be accurate and the prescription to be appropriate. Each of them set out to liberate Marxism-Leninism from the legacy of Stalinism. They found, though, that the two were inextricably intertwined: that to try to separate one from another risked killing both.

he started out with relatively little. He was born into the family of a respectable but forgettable Roman senator in 63 B.C.E.

Margaret Thatcher was part of the team that invented Mr Whippy ice cream.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. OSCAR WILDE

The Dead were no better than us – they made mistakes, behaved badly, lost the plot, lost hope, treated each other cruelly – and, as we have seen, they certainly cannot be said to have had better lives. Ultimately, though, whatever they started with, and however badly it sometimes ended, all of our distinguished Dead did something that made a difference – and they did it by making something of themselves.

The number of Homo sapiens sapiens that have ever lived, fought, loved, fussed pottered and finally died over the last 100,000 years is around ninety billion.

everyone alive on the planet today is related both to Confucius (551–479 BC) and to Nefertiti (1370–1330 BC). So

If you thought "Rabbie Burns" wrote "Auld Lang Syne," you'd be doubly wrong. Burns never signed his name "Rabbie" or "Robbie" (or, indeed, "Bobbie" Burns, as some North Americans insist on calling him). His signatures included "Robert," "Robin," "Rab"—and, on at least one occasion, "Spunkie.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.

In the United States, the story is particularly one of a handful of extraordinary people, of whom Paul Lewis is one.

The disease has survived in memory more than in any literature. Nearly all those who were adults during the pandemic have died now. Now the memory lives in the minds of those who only heard stories, who heard how their mother lost her father, how an uncle became an orphan, or heard an aunt say, "It was the only time I ever saw my father cry." Memory dies with people. The writers of the 1920s had little to say about it.

mother like son' is a saying so true, the world will judge largely of mother by you.

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

As I've gotten older, my mannerisms are more and more like my mom's. Also, she was an educator - she's extremely passionate about education and children. I guess I inherited that in some way.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

EFFECT OF A TRUE TEACHER GOES UP TO ETERNITY THROUGH HIS STUDENTS.

We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.

I inherited curiosity from my Dad.