Quotes About Legacy

Einstein would be one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time even if he had not written a single line on relativity.

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

Leaders are also responsible for future leadership. They need to identify, develop, and nurture future leaders.

aber vor allem: standhalten, dem Licht, der Freude (wie unser Kind als es sang) im Wissen, dass ich erlösche im Licht über Ginster, Asphalt und Meer, standhalten der Zeit, beziehungsweise Ewigkeit im Augenblick. Ewig sein: gewesen sein.

What the Red Army did in Germany was the darkest stain on its record in the war.

Soldiers may accept a need to be the first to die in a war, but there is often an unseemly scramble to avoid becoming the last.

The American and British armies in the Second World War paid a high price for the privilege of the profoundly anti-militaristic ethos of their nations.

Winston Churchill, the towering personality of the forces of light.

The Bengal famine has been the final epitaph of British rule and achievement in India." Churchill stubbornly refused concessions to nationalist sentiment, dismissing objections from the Americans and their Chinese clients. Leo Amery recoiled in dismay from Churchill's ravings:

I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.

When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement? Of course not. What will matter then will be people. If relationships will matter most then, shouldn't they matter most now?

We all die," Abrim said. "How we die is more important than when." "And how we live before we die," Salom added. "That is why I serve--to give meaning to my life.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

What kind of a man must one be if he is allowed to put his hand on the wheel of history?

It is certain that there can be no work in political economy on any other than an altruistic basis... If our work is to retain any meaning it can only be informed by this: concern for the future, for those who will come after us.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Death is the beginning of immortality.

The ground we walk on is impacted down and hard with blood and bones of those who died unjustly. There's not one title to land or life, even your own, but was built on rape and murder, back a few years. It would take a fire indeed to burn out all this error.

Nothing is made by men but makes, in the end, good ruins.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.