Quotes About Legacy

France will always be a great nation.

My most splendid campaign was that of March 20; not a single shot was fired.

Soldiers, from the summit of yonder pyramids forty centuries look down upon you.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

Conquests will come and go but Delambre 's work will endure.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting

Quel roman pourtant que ma vie!

Well then, I will tell you. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded great empires; but upon what did these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love, and to this very day millions will die for Him...

Es gibt keine andere Unsterblichkeit als die Erinnerung, die man im Geiste der Menschen zurücklässt.

Napoléon ubicumque felix.

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

After I die," my daughter said, "I hope some of my atoms can find their way into a cat.

We lived so long and so self-consciously that we assumed we must live forever, and we buried our dead with enough talismans and spare change for eternity.

And what great writers actually pass on is not so much their words, but they hand on their breath at their moments of inspiration.

We are very arrogant to think we alone have a totally original mind. We are carried on the backs of all the writers who came before us.

It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again and collect a weekly allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at the least, accept it.

WRITE EVERYTHING YOU know about dying. Just go. Don't think, "What does she mean by that?" Dive in. We die in all kinds of ways. Who died? When did they die? how? why?

it is Simone I want to visit in her cramped grave. To thank her for a single line in The Second Sex that I read in my midtwenties. It rang in my head like a bell, tolling the direction to my future. I paraphrase: In order to create, one must be deeply rooted in society. After reading that line I vowed to elbow my way in, to be heard. I knew women had been pushed to the margins.

For thousands of years