Quotes About Legacy

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

Muista poika, että tämän päivän kapinallinen on huomispäivän pieru

Totul trece, de fapt, atât de repede È™i, pe m?sur? ce înaint?m în vârst?, descoperim c? toate au o importan?? mult mai mic? decât consideram noi la început... iar la cap?t, È™tim c? ne aÈ™teapt? odihna È™i somnul, È™i nimeni nu ne va deÈ™tepta.

Peoples bear the weight of curses longer than the princes who incur them.

Los días vividos, pletóricos o vacíos, tranquilos o agitados, son todos por igual días pasados, y la ceniza del pasado pesa lo mismo en todas las manos.

History's tragedies reveal great men: but those tragedies are provoked by the mediocre.

Days lived, whether full or empty, whether busy or serene, are but days gone by, and the ashes of the past weigh the same in every hand. Had

Chaque homme, parce qu'il croît un peu que le monde est né en même temps que lui, souffre, au moment de quitter la vie, de laisser l'univers inachevé. À plus forte raison un roi. (Le roi de fer, partie 3, ch. 9, p. 350)

The shamrock on an older shore Sprang from a rich and sacred soil Where saint and hero lived of yore, And where their sons in sorrow toil.

Il n'y pas de mort. Je peux fermer les yeux, j'aurai mon paradis dans les coeurs qui se souviendront.

Annapurna, to which we had gone emptyhanded, was a treasure on which we should live the rest of our days. With this realization we turn the page: a new life begins. There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

The father of the tower was Eiffel—but the idea and the math were me.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future tradition has placed 10 000 men to guard the past

Het verleden is altijd tegenwoordig. (The past is always present.)

Death descends upon us to take away a life or change its form: let us judge it by what it does and not by what we do before it comes and after it is gone.

Any commemoration is also a betrayal.

We inherit powers which are not immediately ours. I record the results of an activity of which I am not a part.

Perhaps there are never any masters except after the fact and from afar.

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

F**k them is what I say. I hate those ebooks. They can not be the future. They may well be. I will be dead. I won't give a s**t.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

Meseems I feel his presence. Is he dead? Death is a word. He lives and grander grows.

The here and now is shaped by the back then..

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.