Quotes About Legacy

Eu estarei vivo e, vivendo, não deixarei morrer quem caminhou comigo, ao longo do caminho.

Também se pode amar o que não se possui, também se pode servir o que deixou de ser nosso. O destino dos povos não é o de terem Impérios, mas o de terem memórias.

One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.

For the majority of people on this earth, life goals are simple: to survive, to leave children who will in turn survive, and, if possible, to do so with a certain amount of comfort and dignity.

Having a record of the past can make a great contribution to the quality of life. It frees us from the tyranny of the present, and makes it possible for consciousness to revisit former times.

of the Zen masters might have been excellent in their own time—and might still be the best, if

Will you ever be anything more than a vessel transmitting the genes and memes of previous generations on to the next?

Sarojini Naidu, India's great poetess and a redoubtable freedom fighter, told. Once she signed an autograph for a young boy and when she asked him if he knew who she was, he said, 'You are C. K. Nayudu's wife!

For I, Sinuhe, am a human being. I have lived in everyone who existed before me and shall live in all who come after me. I shall live in human tears and laughter, in human sorrow and fear, in human goodness and wickedness, in justice and injustice, in weakness and strength. As a human being I shall live eternally in all mankind.

Un acto humano es como una piedra arrojada al mar. Cae con gran estrépito y agita el agua, pero al cabo de un instante la superficie está de nuevo lisa y no se ve ya rastro de la piedra. Lo mismo ocurre con la memoria

Las razas desaparecen, los pueblos se levantan y se borran, los imperios se suceden y la gloria huye como una sombra. Pero seguid alzando vuestras murallas blancas sobre la ribera al pie de las montañas rojas...

As a man I had to provide my own purpose in life, and probably nothing is more difficult. It is easier to beget children and to thrust the responsibility on them while washing one's own hands.

For I, Sinuhe, am a human being. I have lived in everyone who existed before me and shall live in all who come after me. I shall live in human tears and laughter, in human sorrow and fear, in human goodness and wickedness, in justice and injustice, in weakness and strength. As a human being I shall live eternally in mankind. I desire no offerings at my tomb and no immortality for my name. This was written by Sinuhe, the Egyptian, who lived alone all the days of his life.

Craters on Mercury have to be named for deceased poets; moon of Uranus are named for Shakespearean characters. For this type of object in the Kuiper belt, the rules said that the name had to be a creation deity in a mythology

Just do your best; it'll always be enough. And leave the past to your biographers.

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

You only live once so you've got to get it right

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

We, as a people,will leave only one mark on this planet long after our time, and that mark will be the sum total of all the decisions we make.

Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.

Unfortunately, the proximity of art and history has little influence on those who govern

It's like Jack Kennedy," DeMarco said to Emma. "All the rumors about Joe Kennedy being a bootlegger and having ties to the mob and getting rich on insider trading never really hurt Jack. It sounds like the same thing with Stephanie. By the time she jumped onto the political stage, her old man was dead, his money had been laundered clean, she had nothing to do with his past life.

I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.

He imagined himself as a sprinter now, felt his arms and legs pumping, thought of the old Cuban sprinter his father used to tell him about. Juan something? No, no. Juantarena. Alberto Juantarena. His father said it was like watching a god run. And his father, the old fool, wasn't even Cuban, he was Dominican. The only Dominican who wanted to talk about track stars instead of baseball.