Quotes About Legacy

His name was Kurt Waldheim.

Today's freedom fighters are tomorrow's dictators.

Marrying left your maiden name disused.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems

Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone fidelity They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.

Why can't one stop being a son without becoming a father?

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

he [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying.

Our children will not know it's a different country. All we can hope to leave them now is money.

They mess you up, your mom and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had, and add some extra, just for you.

What will survive of us is love.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy stern And half at one another's throats.

As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime," he said. "I am that reader, and I can tell you it was a wasted life.

A New Way to Pay Old Debts

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turmoil and the legacy of an unpopular war with Iraq; the Conservative opposition looked likely to form the next government; and many of the constitutional reforms were not

What happens," called out Max, "if you win?" "We die anyway, but I become legend" I explained

Cattle die, kindred die, we ourselves shall die, but I know one thing that never dies: the reputations of each one dead.

What actually happened in the past is gone- history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains.

I love history, Tom. All those old things people dig up. Just ordinary things that were once used by ordinary people, but made special by time.

Ni ska bli en del av historien, eftersom historia är allt ni bryr er om.