Quotes About Legacy

though we belong to this country as much as this country belongs to us, we only move through its rooms as momentary visitors, projecting our ideas on its walls, that the best we can do is live a good life, perhaps add a couple replicas of ourselves...

Here's how you think about it: Together you constructed many things throughout your life. Then her body disappeared, but the constructions still remain. Human beings die: That's natural. But to accept her death is to lose all hope.

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or how powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will sill pretty much depend on the weather.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

People who have outrageous skills and abilities are the gold nuggets in the river bed of human history.

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

She was called Victoria because she had beaten us in battle seven hundred years before, and she was called Gloriana because she was glorious, and she was called the Queen because the human mouth was not shaped to say her true name.

In a perfect world, a woman receives her crown from her father, and her mother shows her how it is to be worn.

It had obsessed his father and caused his death. It had briefly obsessed Pétur before he had tried to put it behind him. It had obsessed Agnar and the foreign Lord of the Rings fans, and it had obsessed Hákon. No possessed Hákon. Only his grandfather, Högni, had had the

That's the good thing about dying young. You don't have to lament too many mistakes or carry too great a burden of regret about the people you wronged or the dreams that were unfulfilled. It's much better to die in your prime, before the damage is done to your body or other people.

Children are like time capsules that we shoot into the future, hoping there will still be a world for them to inherit. I don't know if they are chips off the same block, or if one apple has fallen farther from the tree, but what does it matter? They are loved. Longed for. Ours.

Some people will find their own grave too crowded.

perhaps the founders understood us better than we understand ourselves.

At the end of this lifetime, all the "stuff" you accrue is not going to make you happy. At the end of your life, all you're going to have is who you've become as an individual, and that is what matters the most. What are you leaving behind for the next generation to build upon? Did you set up your family? Did you accomplish everything you wanted during your journey? And did it make you happy? But

The actions of a single person can change the course of the world and create history.

Jullie dragen de genen van de oorspronkelijke tweeling die tien millennia geleden op Danu Talis heeft gevochten. Sophie, jij en je broer zijn de afstammelingen van goden. - Nicolas Flamel

that Isis and Osiris are not their parents

When a New York Times reporter asked Oppenheimer how he felt after the bomb was tested on July 16, 1945, the father of the atomic bomb said, "Lots of boys not grown up yet will owe their life to it.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.