Quotes About Legacy

Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King." And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.

Mais crains que l'avenir détruisant le passé

Indeed, men who manage to defeat time by anxiously safeguarding their tomorrow, by not allowing it to stray anywhere from the past, have in effect conquered death itself.

All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It's a certainty.

50th and 58th Streets came to be known as Vanderbilt

What a lopsided stumpy mess people made of a family tree these days. The last thing any of them needed was some new little sprig grafted on.

So he's condemned to a half life, for the sins of his fathers?' 'When the sins of his fathers had such hideous consequences, what would you suggest?

Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going largely on his reputation.

Yet the Visigoths' intangible legacy was far more important: they left behind a powerful myth of a Golden Age of Christian rule that ended when most of Spain became part of the Muslim world. This myth would shape the destiny of Spain and the Spanish language.

Juan Manuel María de la Aurora Fernández Pacheco Acuña Girón y Portocarrero (1650–1726)—the

name—Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco—Bol

Cultura e un cimitir de c?r?i ?i de alte obiecte disp?rute pentru vecie.

In un certo paese vivevano un uomo molto ricco e un uomo molto povero. Ognuno aveva un figlio. L'uomo molto ricco salì con il figlio sulla cima di una collina, gli indicò con un gesto il paesaggio circostante e gli disse: Guarda. Un giorno tutto questo sarà tuo. L'uomo molto povero salì con il figlio sulla cima della stessa collina, gli indicò il paesaggio circostante e gli disse semplicemente: Guarda.

In un certo paese vivevano un uomo molto ricco e un uomo molto povero. Ognuno aveva un figlio. L'uomo molto ricco salì con il figlio sulla cima di una collina, gli indicò con un gesto il paesaggio circostante e gli disse: L'uomo molto povero salì con il figlio sulla cima della stessa collina, gli indicò il paesaggio circostante e gli disse semplicemente:

Se sarbatoreste ziua tatilor. Inainte de accident, nu simteam nevoia sa trecem in calendarul nostru si aceasta intalnire fortata, dar, acum, petrecem impreuna toata ziua asta simbolica poate tocmai pentru a demonstra ca o caricatura, o umbra, o frantura de tata ramane, totusi, un tata".

Have you all forgotten that I am Henry's spawn? And Anne Boleyn's . . . a name that does not pass my lips, but is forever on my mind? Who can doubt the courage of a woman who faced the ax by lifting up her long hair with a smile?

Roland, the flower of chivalry, Expired at Roncevall." Thomas Campbell. "Hero-worship endures for ever while man endures." Carlyle. "Roland, the gode knight." Turpin's History of Charlemagne.

every family tree has at least one crooked branch.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.