Quotes About Legacy

The dead are noble, the living worthless.

I am not resting until I die. I am not doing this for myself, but for the country.

If this planet lasts for another thousand years people will still be talking about the terrible event we are now living through.

We have one life: it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

Agissez comme si votre mort était pour demain, mais accomplissez vos devoirs comme si vous deviez vivre l'éternité.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.

I give you life in the memory of one who no longer lives. May you have a long life, and may you thank Matthew every day for it.

Como escribió Gabriel García Márquez después de conocer al líder venezolano en una reunión especial que a tal fin convocó Fidel Castro: «Me estremeció la inspiración de que había viajado y conversado a gusto con dos hombres opuestos. Uno, a quien la suerte empedernida le ofrecía la oportunidad de salvar a su país. Y el otro, un ilusionista que podía pasar a la historia como un déspota más».

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

In the middle of the cemetery is a grassy plane, strangely vacant. There are no granite tombs or crumbling concrete, just a sun-washed treeless patch of green known as "No Man's Land." Here 1,500 unidentified bodies are buried. At one time, their skin burned with yellow fever; now they lie in a cool, dark place where long ago their arms and legs, hands and feet, were intertwined for eternity.

Sholto's hairbrush?

silver fork (our crest, a fox rampant, almost handled and washed away

Why, it's a commandment handed down by our ancestors. That was the way they behaved--" "And I suppose their conduct was invariably impeccable, huh?" Chris mocked. "One of the reasons I've always had respect for polygamy is that our ancestors handed it down to us.

Unfortunately it is not possible to destroy our history. It lives inside us, probably the more powerful for our attempts to bury it. We and our families are likely to pay a high price in the present for trying to block out the past. Attempts to cover up family history tend to fester, influencing others born long after the original painful experiences and relationships.

WE all need a story of where we came from and how we got here.

And so, like a courtesan, forced to perform the dance of the seven veils, I grudgingly reveal the names, one by one, of the cities that have carved their names into me, leaving behind the scar tissue that forms the bulk of who I am.

Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.

All writing is about the same thing - it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration it creates

When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you're going to get from me, as each of you turns sixteen, is a library of the one hundred books that gave me the most pleasure when I was a know-nothing adolescent.

But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit.

When they tote up our contribution," Luke once said, "all that can be claimed for us is that we took 'fuck' out of the oral tradition and wrote it plain.

Black history is American history.