Quotes About Legacy

a qué se dedica el muerto? —Se dedicaba al pedo ajeno. Era dueño de la concesión de la Modelo en el municipio. Pal velorio hubo cerveza gratis para todos.

Los agraviados y sus herederos seguimos pensando que Iturbide no era de los nuestros. Y que mejor vaya y chingue a su madre.

A whole section of the family tree is pruned and primped and assessed as I politely sit there. Overall, I detect that the tree is fine: its leaves gently turning in the breeze of life. We have no scandal blight, no limb-wrenching storms of fate, no bad apples. I wonder what it is like when the Kennedys sit around for a disk check like this.

My grandfather was a closet feminist. So

I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

Because when people look back on the history of this time, at what happened, they should see that we tried to do something,

You need to do better," Pan Rosenberg said before I could speak. He pointed upward. "Up there, almost no more Jews live." He did not bother to spare me from the truth the way my parents and others had when I was younger. There was no safety in hiding things anymore. "We are the last of our kind and down here we are alive. You owe it to your parents to go on.

Because when people look back on the history of this time, at what happened, they should see that we tried to do something," he said with determination

We'll do anything to get rid of that excess hardware from the Cold War, and someday it's going to come back to haunt us.

The real work, she saw now, had not been in the missions she had carried out herself but in training others to carry the torch when she no longer could.

That's one of the things about being married to a couple of musicians, I have got great iPods. That's what I was left with -- an iPod each.

Iain?" "Mmm?" "If the bairn is a lass, I'd like to name her after our mothers—Mara Elesaid." "'Tis a bonnie name. And if 'tis a laddie?" "Then we shall name him after his father." "Och, well, 'tis a grand idea. And what name would that be?" "You daftie!

Jimi Hendrix often spoke about being a messenger. His hope was that his music might somehow pierce our hearts and heal our souls. He finally did go so far out that he couldn't find his way back in, but he did us all a huge favor—he left his music with us.

That's what I want, she thought, with the fiercest feeling of wanting she'd ever had in her life. She wanted that look her granny had, that look that told the world here I am, I'm somebody, and here is my life. I been young and old and in between, I loved a man, raised my children, worked, laughed, cried, and, see, even after all that, here I still am. "I'll be

You don't want me to end up like you. I have to tell you, that's always been kind of weird to me. I hope I end up like you. In fact, that's the one goal that I'm really sure about. I want to be as much like you as possible." - Tree to Piney, in one of their father-son talks.

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

According to the historian Arrian who reported the encounter, the ascetics beat their feet on the ground as Alexander passed them. When asked about the gesture, they said that Alexander occupied, despite his conquests, no more ground than that covered by the soles of his two feet. Like everyone else, he, too, was mortal, 'except that you are ambitious and reckless, traversing such a vast span of land, so remote from your home, enduring troubles and inflicting them upon others'.4

We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.

No one will ever know why Dr. Frisch chose such a rag from his precious, renowned collection. Perhaps only to use it for his last match, with death.

One priceless bit of advice my great-grandfather fave my grandfather, and my grandfather gave me: "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal.

Nicky and I were devastated. We adored Princess Diana. Now she was in Heaven with Marilyn, forever young, forever perfect. We didn't stop to wonder why everyone wants women to stay young if dying is the only way to do it.

I cannot imagine a spiritual pain deeper than dying with the thought that during my sojourn on earth, I had rarely, if ever, shown up as my true self. And I cannot imagine a spiritual comfort deeper than dying with the knowledge that I had spent my brief time on this planet doing the best I could to be present as myself to my family, my friends, my community, and my world.

becoming one's self: Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, "In the coming world, they will not ask me: `Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: Why were you not Zusya?"'= If you doubt that we all arrive in this world with gifts and as a gift, pay attention to an infant or a very young child. A few years ago, my daughter and her newborn baby came to live

It's unfair to lay all responsibility for the future on the younger generation. After all, the problems they face are partly due to the fact that we, their elders, screwed up. Worse still, it's not true that the young alone are in charge of what comes next. We—young and old together—hold the future in our hands. If our common life is to become more compassionate, creative, and just, it will take an intergenerational effort.