Quotes About Legacy

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.

I'm going to be around until the Atomic Energy Commission finds a safe place to bury my liver.

I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver

If you are able, save for them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. "Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not have always. Take what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own. "And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind." This

It's always the old to lead us to the wars,Always the young to fall.

Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me. ~ Nostradamus

Per combattere realmente il silenzio della tua morte, devo raccontare la tua storia, non la mia

So I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war, to endure the same old experiences, suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

Cousin Mike, the person most people believe put Richard on the path he traveled, died of a massive heart attack in April of 1995. He was overweight and still haunted by the ghosts of things he'd done in Vietnam, regularly using heroin. The Army gave Mike a hero's burial with a twenty-one-gun salute.

The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children

And as Anglo-Saxon scholar Stephen Pollington says: 'All our hardiest words – mother, father, land, earth, tree, field, sky, love, hate, live, die, eat, drink, sleep, wake – are Anglo-Saxon words.

I think what makes life matter,what makes it good,is knowing that someday we`ll die. Maybe death is God`s joke on us but I think it is also his gift.We have our allotted time and the is`s over.It`s up to us to make in meaningful and special.

The Civil War ceased physically in 1865," noted Thomas Beer, a chronicler of the Mauve Decade, which closed out the century, "and its political end may be reasonably expected about the year 3000.

Galen's writings were the indisputable source of medical authority for more than a thousand years. "It is I, and I alone, who has revealed the true path of medicine," Galen wrote with his usual modesty. And yet Galen never conducted anything resembling a modern experiment. Why

Some people make headlines while others make history.

Alexander was and is the absolute embodiment of pure human ambition with all its good and evil consequences.

To truly understand Alexander we must realize that—perhaps more than any man in history—he hated to lose. Alexander was and is the absolute embodiment of pure human ambition with all its good and evil consequences. We can condemn the death and destruction he left in his wake as he strode across the world like a colossus, but in the end we can't help but admire a man who dared such great deeds.

At last, his companions approached his bedside and implored him to name his successor: To whom do you leave your kingdom? They leaned close to hear his words. With great effort Alexander answered in a whisper: To the strongest. With that, the king of the world closed his eyes and breathed his last.

Albert Fine murió en 1987

The past is reinvented and becomes the future. But the lineage is everything.

Years later, in 1987, I wrote a violin concerto for Ben. I knew he loved the Mendelssohn violin concerto, so I wrote it in a way that he would have liked. In his actual lifetime I didn't have the knowledge, skill, or inclination to compose such a work. I missed that chance by at least fifteen years. But when I could, I wrote it for him anyway.

The most important thing to him is his drive, his purpose, his desire to give meaning to the experience of dying.

Legacies are hard to come by, after all. And if you have one going, you ought to do what you can to keep it alive.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.