Quotes About Legacy

Humane people don't start revolutions, they start libraries. And cemeteries.

To be immortal and then die.

It matters little whether we see or not the triumph of our work or even its recognition; that has no importance, as long as it is devoted to truth and justice. As long as this is so, we shall not die, we shall always have friends and even a homeland, as we carry it within us; our country is that of the spirit. Ödön von Horvath, letter to Theodor Csokor of 23 March 1938

Their legacy to America was immense, and the social sciences and humanities as well as the fine arts, music and drama would be unimaginable today without the contribution of these émigrés.

Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

History does seem to be just one long succession of murders, doesn't it?

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

Big, old companies are simply not designed for digital.

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.

I don't know what will be left of me fifty years from now. I suspect that all films will have aged terribly and that the cinema probably won't even exist anymore. My guess is that the final disappearance of cinemas will take place around the year 2020, so in fifty years' time, there will be nothing but television.

Tragische Schuld verkörpert sich im permanenten Konflikt zwischen der uralten religiösen Vorstellung von der Missetat als einer Beschmutzung, die einer ganzen Rasse anhaftet und unausweichlich von einer Generation auf die nächste vererbt wird [...], und dem neuen vom Gesetz übernommenen Konzept, nach dem der Schuldige definiert wird als Privatperson, die sich aus eigenem Antrieb und unter keinem Zwang stehend entschlossen hat, ein Verbrechen zu begehen.

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

In the end, the most enduring legacy of air-conditioning may be the divide it has created between the cool and the damned.

Remember me as I tried to be, not as I was." ~Urza, The Brother's War

1.?What do we want to be known FOR? 2.?What are we known FOR?

Deeper in their hearts, they were debating what kind of man they wanted their son to be.

I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.

I'm not really sure what makes a book a "classic" to begin with, but I think it has to be at least fifty years old and some person or animal has to die at the end.

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.

two critical areas of life, everyday happiness and long-term impact,

Rome ne s'est pas faite en un jour. (Rome wasn't built in a day.)" —ancient French proverb

One of the most compelling, universal human drives is the desire to feel that we make a difference—that because we were here, the world is a better place. Human beings are social animals, and there's something hardwired into us that needs to know that we've had an impact on the world.