Quotes About Legacy

Now there are fields of corn where Troy once was.

Perhaps too my name will be joined to theirs [the names of famous poets].

I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.

the transgressions of the Bush era, rather than being denounced as unworthy of our Constitution, have been institutionalized.

Yuengling's

Randy [Rhoads] was laid to rest at a place called Mountain View Cemetery, where his grandparents were buried. I made a vow there and then to honour his death every year by sending flowers. Unlike most of my vows, I kept it. But I've never been back to his graveside. I'd like to go there again one day, before I finally join him on the other side.

I don't have anything bad to say about the guy they hired to replace me, Ronnie James Dio, who'd previously been with Rainbow . He's a great singer. Then again, he ain't me, and I ain't him. So I just wish they'd called the band Black Sabbath II .

One thing I've learned about myself over the years is that I'm no good at dealing with people dying. It's not that I'm afraid of it – I know that everyone's gotta go eventually – but I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many f**ked-up ways of leaving it.

Five kids in one lifetime ain't bad – and I love them all so much. They're the best things that ever happened to me, no question about it.

He was a good guy, my old man: simple, old-fashioned. Physically, he was built like a feather-weight, and he wore these thick, black Ronnie Barker glasses. He would say to me, 'You might not have a good education, but good manners don't cost you anything.' And he practised what he preached: he'd always give up his seat on the bus for a woman or help an old lady across the road. A good man. I really miss him.

Idézet, "én", idézet vége, foglalta össze Esti Kornél a modern utáni irodalmi törekvéseket és azok nyomorúságát és szükségszer?ségét, majd meghalt, de nem bírt.

The last year of the Vajpayee government, 2003–04, was the best ever—not just reckoning the years since 1947 but even going back to the last century, to the years of the East India Company, to the reign of Akbar and of Ashoka, and to the time when our forefathers had discovered Pythagoras's theorem, mastered the art of organ transplant and flew aircraft to other planets.

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

Always read the stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Writing lives forever, while you may not.

But if you don't talk about the people you've loved and lost, they just fade away.

You must work--- we must all work To make the world worthy of its children.

I have defeat tattooed in my DNA. My great-uncle was shot dead. My grandfather was given the death sentence and spent five years in jail. My grandmothers suffered the humiliation of those defeated in the Civil War. My father was put in jail. My mother was politically active in the underground. It bothers me enormously to lose, I can't stand it. And I've spent many years, with some friends, devoting almost all of our political activity to thinking about how we can win.

What a great language I have, it's a fine language we inherited from the fierce Conquistadors…. They carried everything off and left us everything…. They left us the words.

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Pablo Picasso, last words

le ha dado a la Argentina lo único de lo que puede enorgullecerse: la independencia".

Por qué y cómo se construyó esta potente alegoría? ¿Qué hay detrás de El Álamo? ¿Quiénes reinventaron la batalla de El Á