Quotes About Legacy

The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!

The nicest thing about creating ideas is that even when you finish your travelling, they continue their journey!

The tattoo of the History is permanent; once a nation or a man is marked by this tattoo, erasing is impossible.

To be forgotten is not something horrible; not to be remembered ever again is something horrible!

Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!

We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!

You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!

You cannot separate the old furniture from the memories and the memories from the old furniture!

You frantically want to make a mark on the history of humanity? You, King of the Fools! In the very distant future, there shall be no history; there shall remain not even a single trace of anything!

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

Presidents don't do it to their wives. They do it to their country.

But let's get back to Melvin Kaminsky.

Mary Shelley, who at only nineteen years of age conceived her immortal Gothic novel, Frankenstein. Needless to say, Gene Wilder and I will always be in her debt.

I've worked with many great people in my life, but there will never be another Carl Reiner.

I think it's better to be a legend while ye're alive to enjoy it.

time before history" is because it was an era that came and went without leaving a trace of itself. Since nothing went "wrong, " nobody had any reason to write anything down. It was lived, not recorded.

Un artista, uno scrittore, non crea le sue opere per firmarle, ma per metterle al mondo.

What else could we call it and our new palace but Dragon's Rest?

When I grow up, I'm going to be my mother.

You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?

Despite the voice in his head that says he doesn't want anything that's owed to his father, Tom can't wait to get his hands on it. "Just take it. Hit your old man over the head with it. You're dying to.

I get all the criticism about religion, you know, Mr. Ortley. But the thing is, you can't take it away from people and not leave something else of substance. That's what your generation will be remembered for. Taking so much away and replacing it with so little of worth.