Quotes About Legacy

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

In the long run, the fall of one civilization is very much like the fall of another. Only the land remains.

The achievements and discoveries of a great but dying society can bring light to a young and growing one.

My ancestors came over on the boat. Oh, not the Mayflower, but the boat after that. What did your ancestors come over on, Godfrey?

When people die, you always hear the expression, "You can't take it with you.

When Charlemagne's driving impulse passed, his Renaissance faded. For 200 years after his death, there is not much to record in Western Europe in the way of creative thought.

There was never a greater crime against humanity than the fourth crusade," says Stephen Runciman. It destroyed the treasures of the past and broke down the most advanced culture of Europe. Far from uniting Eastern and Western Christendom, it implanted in the Greeks a hostility toward the West that has never entirely disappeared, and it weakened the Byzantine defenses against the rising power of the Ottoman Turks, to whom they eventually succumbed.

In the thirteenth century, Bishop Henry of Liege had sixty-one children, fourteen of them within twenty-two months, setting perhaps a record of clerical philoprogenitiveness.

Your mummy and daddy love you very much,' she'd say. 'But people can't fry potatoes after they're dead.

History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future

You haven't lived until you've died in California

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

For every struggle that Joe survived, For every dispute he endured, to rise, Joe will go down in history as a model for champions to come. While Frazier was a man of few words, Ali was a world of mouth, but he found his place in history. Now his heart can express him well. Joe Frazier was a silent warrior, whom Ali silently admired. One could not rise without the other.

Watching George come back to win the title got me all excited. Made me want to come back. But then the next morning came, and it was time to start running. I lay back in bed and said, "That's okay, I'm still the Greatest."

While Frazier was a man of few words / Ali was a world of mouth / but he found his place in history / Now his heart can express him well / Joe Frazier was a silent warrior / whom Ali silently admired / One could not rise without the other

Archie's been living off the fat of the land. I'm here to give him his pension plan.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

When I die, don't let my death stop the resistance.

Sanat de?i?imi biriktirir, zamana yayar. ?yi bir kitap yaln?zca okuma hazz?n?z? beslemez, ayn? zamanda sizde uyand?rd??? duyguyu ba?kalar?na aktarma arzusu verir size. Ya?am?n döngüsü miras? devretmek üzerine kuruludur.

only one man lived who could understand Gibbs 's papers. That was Maxwell , and now he is dead.

The potflower on the windowsill says to me In words that are green-edged red leaves : Flower flower flower flower Today for the sake of all the dead Burst into flower

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.