Quotes About Legacy

Children who are encouraged to attend to their instinctual responses are rewarded with a lifelong legacy of health and vigor.

The inescapable conclusion is that Washington was a Christian.

London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.

Zanzibar Chest,

Cut out the crooked work, son. Nobody has anythin' on you yet—start straight an' raise this boy straight, an' if ever you spot him showin' signs o' breakin' away from the reservation, just you remind him that a woman an' two men died to make a man outer him. That's all. I ain't goin' to try to talk no more.

WASHINGTON LOVES the ones who grease its gears. But history only remembers the ones who shift them," the late Washington Post writer Marjorie Williams wrote of Baker.

I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.

I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.

Hayworth, the former Margarita Carmen Cansino, was, of course, one of the brightest stars of the forties and early fifties, so much so that the crew of the Enola Gay is rumored to have used her pinup decal as "nose art" for either the bomber or its payload, Little Boy, before dropping it on Hiroshima. Welles

Journalism, it turns out, is just so much hot air, hot type rather, that has an extraordinary importance at the moment but leaves nothing behind. It is the very opposite of the true poetic word that endures—what Lucien originally aspired to but betrayed

When you're talking about the culture, maybe there is something that just permeates sort of thing, you know you pass it on or take it in, without ever being aware of it. - Ivan Paveli?, Croatia

They worked hard all their lives, what they basically did was, they built a little Ukraine, a little society for themselves here in Brisbane. They did this in all the cities … not a ghetto, it wasn't inward looking to that extent, but it was inward looking in the sense that it was a place to go—somewhere where you could identify; where you could be understood; go about remembering and preserving your roots. - Walter Sucharsky, 2nd Generation Australian

Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would not, apologise to the Aboriginal people for 200 years of murder and abuse. The battle against the Turks, he said in Gallipoli, was our history, our tradition. The war against the Aboriginals, he had already said at home, had happened long ago. The battle had made us; the war that won the continent was best forgotten

If you know the country he said then you will be a wild colonial boy forever

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

He could leave the land in ruins and remain beloved. He had made history. He was the end of history.

To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.

Everything becomes rubbish in the end. We sometimes wonder if people weren't invented as an extra-quick way of making rubbish.

out…That's why they want the Beatles to go on, so they can get all silly again. But

What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.

It took eight generations of cousins marrying to produce you

Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. Classic, but not as good as Wish You Were Here.

I think our father Demitri is smiling upon this launch.

If I can get all hot under the collar about the purity of a hat, just think what I'm like when human heritage is threatened with extinction.