Quotes About Legacy

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

All the nations that ever lived have left their footsteps in the sand. The traces fade with every tide, the echoes grow faint, the images are fractured, the human material is atomized and recycled. But if we know where to look, there is always a remnant, a remainder, an irreducible residue.

We have survived the "Death of God" and the "Death of Man". We will surely survive "the Death of History" . . . and the death of post-modernism.

civilization will always be a tenuous affair that must be taught in each generation and is always, at most, one generation deep.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

A person doesn't die from this or that disease. He dies from his whole life.

Even now, when I have time to consider what I've been and what I am, I doubt I comprehend my humanity, if I can claim so grand a word for my own morsel of life. I might as well be a meteor of a man, for all the difference I've made on earth.

Even Rudyard Kipling, that most patriotic of poets, whose only son was killed on his first day on the Western front, could write in 1919, in the persona of a dead soldier, "If any question why we died / Tell them 'Because our fathers lied.

I just wanted to do something important.

You could be the first nation to tell your children to ask themselves what work in the world would most become their souls and to prepare to do it.

When asked what his greatest life achievement was, Norman Thomas replied: "The intellectual theft of every one of my ideas by the Democratic Party."

I remember the names of my ancestors. I speak the names of those I love. I speak their names and they live again. May I be so well-loved and remembered. In truth, may the gods hear my name. May I do work with my hands worth remembering.

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of quaint, and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.

Sassafras had never wanted to weave, she just couldn't help it. There was something about the feel of raw fleece and finished threads and dainty patterned pieces that was as essential to her as dancing to Carmen De Lavallade, or singing to Aretha Franklin. Her mama had done it, and her mama before that; and making cloth was the only tradition Sassafras inherited that gave her a sense of womanhood that was rich and sensuous, not tired and stingy.

What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable.

la vida de un museo o una excavación arqueológica, como la de un archivo o una biblioteca, es un tesoro que la colectividad debe preservar con celo a toda costa.

You can leave Hong Kong, but it will never leave you.

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

Beni anlamal?s?n. Çünkü ben kitap de?ilim, çünkü ben öldükten sonra kimse beni okuyamaz, ya?arken anla??lmaya mecburum.

Beni hemen anlamal?s?n, çünkü ben kitap de?ilim, çünkü ben öldükten sonra kimse beni okuyamaz, ya?arken anla??lmaya mecburum.

SAFFET (üzüntülü): Ne yaz?k ki devrimin çocu?u oldu?um için ilk günlerin heyecan?n? ya?ayamad?m. Ben kendimi bildi?im zaman bütün devrimler yap?l?p bitirilmi?ti. (Co?kun'a seslenir). Ben hiçbir devrime yeti?emedim üstat! CO?KUN (aynan?n arkas?ndan ba??n? ç?kararak): Ben baz?lar?nda haz?r bulundum.

Baz? kitaplar yüzünden kafam biraz kar??m??sa da bugün bile senin içtenli?ini ta??d???m? ümit ediyorum. Gene de sonunda sana bütünüyle benzemekten korkuyorum babac???m: Yani ben de sonunda senin gibi ölecek miyim?

?nsan?n babas? hayatta bir kere ölür.