Quotes About Legacy

This violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.

The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.

O tempo fica cada vez mais lento e eu lendo lendo lendo vou acabar virando lenda

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

The decision by the British in 1911 to build New Delhi, without integrating the old city with the new, sealed the fate of Shahjahanabad. From then onwards, purani Dilli would live on but only like an ageing courtesan abandoned by her new suitors, waiting to die.

She could either give birth to a fool who would live long or be blessed with a genius who would die young.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Lo colectivo se olvida rápido, solo lo personal e íntimo permanece.

King Basilius, who doth bow 'Neath the weight of years, the doom Age imposes, more inclined To the studies of the mind Than to women, wifeless, lone, Without sons, to fill his throne

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Como una calavera estancada en la zona sur de Santiago, la obra gruesa del Hospital del Trabajador ahí quedó sin terminar, sin ver realizado el macroproyecto de salud que Salvador Allende soñó para este sector de la capital.

The parent of a child, as Deborah Tannen has written, has the power not only to create the world the child lives in but the ability to dictate how that world is to be interpreted. Seen from that point of view, one of the lasting and important legacies of a mean mother is a wellspring of self-doubt. The other, explained by adaptive behavior, is a need to replicate the relationship she has to her mother with other people, regardless of how unhappy it makes her.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

Hubert Humphrey's wife is said to have advised him: "Darling, for a speech to be immortal it need not be interminable.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us.

For one's past grows to a point where it is longer than one's future, and then it can become too great a burden.

Shay," she said. "Shay McKenna," as if trying out his name, saying it for the first time. "Did you ever love me, even a little?" Love you?" He turned his head and brushed his lips across her fingers. "I'm loving you now, mo chridh. After I'm dead, a thousand years from now, whatever's left of me, be it a soul or just a handful of dust, that will be loving you.

The Confederacy lost the war but resoundingly won the peace.

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and therefore really nothing to be scared of, but the dying itself I could comprehend, the very instant when you know that now comes what you have always feared, and you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.

you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.

It was the one place that I knew more about than anyone else. I wondered if everyone needed such a place, if everyone could have such a place, if my daughter would ever have such a place.