Quotes About Legacy

TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT To make a long story short I leave all my possessions to the Municipal Slaughterhouse to the Special Unit of the Police Department to Lucky Dog Lotto So now if you want you can shoot

He also told me he'd just written the epitaph for his tomb: LO PEOR YA PASO. PEOR HUMILLACION QUE LA DE EXISTIR NO HAY. THE WORST IS BEHIND. THERE IS NO HUMILIATION WORSE THAN EXISTENCE

Entre ustedes y yo: El espíritu muere con la muerte.

Si he de conceder crédito a lo dicho por la gente que trajo la noticia debo creer, sin vacilar un punto, que murió con mi nombre en las pupilas

However far you run from your family and try to expunge them from your life, they follow you.

We desire and love and hate and quarrel and deceive and weep – and in a short while we're gone and our lives leave no trace, and all those tears and all that laughter might never have happened.

In the end you have to choose who you will become. You are your life's work. Every moment of every day makes you. Only at the end, when your story is over, do you know what you have created.

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

The transmission of knoledge from generation to generation is one of the miracles of civilization.

So it came to the morning of 21 October 1805, a day that would live for ever in the minds of those who were there.

day that lives still, in the annals of the Royal Navy.

The view from the duke's office has changed very little in the past 200 years.

He also got hold of Nelson's breeches and stockings and kept them for the rest of his life.

He was commander-in-chief because his father was king.

After Napoleon would come his son, if he had one, or his brother's son if he did not.

One was John Moore, who had introduced the Light Infantry to the British army,

It had belonged to Charlemagne in its time

To Midshipman Badcock, watching from two ships behind the Victory, the scene was one he would never forget.

the teeth marks he left in it on the day of Trafalgar are visible still.

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

You are the bows from which your children As living arrows are sent forth. —KHALIL GIBRAN, Lebanese-American poet

I am not gone but merely walk within you.