Quotes About Legacy

The past was not always past enough here. It was like living in a house acquired for its clean angles and gleaming appliances, and discovering a bricked-up foor at which, faint but insistent, the sound of knocking could be heard.

The church will be fine," said Tom. "The church is fine." "Sparlo always said, 'Ministers come and go but the church endures.

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.

the one for whom the sun shines.. -Ramses II

History will remember this," she says. "I do not need to.

I held Nefertiti's body closer to mine, trying to press her spirit into me, to bring it back. But the reign of Nefertiti was finished. She was gone from Egypt.

And once we die, what we leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. [Pericles]

death is quick. What is important is the happiness that came before it.

Yes, they have. And once we die, what we leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." "Pericles.

Be careful here, my lady. Let history forget your name. For if your deeds are to live in eternity, you will have to become exactly what your family wants you to be." "And what is that?" I demanded. "A slave to the throne.

I heard Nakhtmin's voice in my mind, that to be forgotten was the greatest gift that history could give.

To speak the name of the dead is to make them live again- Egyptian Proverb

However, the name Norma Jeane wasn't in the least bit 'star like', so it was decided that it would need to be changed. Ben Lyon told her that she reminded him of the actress Marilyn Miller, and decided he'd like her to be called Marilyn. Monroe was her personal choice, since it was her mother's maiden name.

DEATH freezes everything. Whatever you did or didn't do, whatever you said or left unsaid: none of that is ever going to change. You have no more chances to say sorry or make things right. No more chances for anything except regret.

You can't fool the Angry Ones, Telamon. You can't fool your Ancestors, either. Your father knows what you did. - Hylas

In the early 1900s an American named Fanny Bullock Workman unfurled a 'Votes For Women' banner high in the Karakorams, and left her visiting card in a glass jar on one of the peaks.

History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.

Can you hold off on the whole war thing until after I'm dead?

Michelle Stimpson

He had died in silence as he had lived,' wrote expedition photographer Mario Fantin, 'almost tip-toeing out of life in order not to disturb the people in the tent next to him.'1

John Lee Hooker became a friend of mine and I love all of his work. He was truly an icon. He lived the life. I miss him.

People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.

Before the Code, romance and sex were intertwined. It was the Code that wrenched them apart, and the divorce remains in effect today. A cold-blooded and often depraved cinema that gives us sex with no humanity, feeling, or tenderness is Joseph Breen's most fitting legacy.