Quotes About Legacy

When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'

I still can't get over Sushant Singh Rajput's demise. I got to work with him in 'Dil Bechara.' He was such a jovial and promising guy with no starry tantrums.

A latecomer on the scene, Germany had only been able to pick up the scraps and crumbs left over by European colonial powers that had enjoyed a head start on them.

To the dead. Let's think of them always, but not join them too soon.

I come from a long line of tall-tale talkers. Our family crest is bullets over crossed fingers and underneath it says, 'Bullshit Über Alles.

All are equal in the grave.

Quid salvum est si Roma perit?" What is safe if Rome perishes?

Are all these from dead men?" Steinmetz leaned against the cabin door. "They're not all men's, and yes.

The ashes of your existence will fertilize the soil for the universe to follow.

But you have gone now, all of you that were so beautiful when you were quick with life. Yet not gone, for you are still a living truth inside my mind. So how are you dead, my brothers and sisters, and all of you , when you live with me as surely as I live with myself.

How can there be fury felt for things that are gone to dust.

Everything made by men will be destroyed by nature in the end. Mountains and river, the creations of nature -- they will remain. Everything human, that will go. We nee to reconsider the respect we give to nature.

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

There was a time when the elder generation was cherished because it represented the past; now it is avoided and thrust out of sight for the same reason.

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.

How long did it take for a past to die?

Mubei: Zhongguo Liushi Niandai Da Jihuang Jishi [Tombstone: A Record of the Great Chinese Famine of the 60s], Cosmos Books, Hong Kong, 2008.

I am a Jew a generation after the Holocaust. Poorer, my grandfather says, without a past, than he, who has no future.

Great Carthage drove three wars. After the first one it was still powerful. After the second one it was still inhabitable. After the third one it was no longer possible to find her.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Llegué con cincuenta años de adelanto», dice Ben Johnson con un tono tan satisfecho como triste. «Yo era capaz de hacer lo mismo que hace hoy en día Usain Bolt. La velocidad a la que él es capaz de correr en estas pistas tan rápidas de hoy en día es la misma a la que podría haber corrido yo». Y lo repite, «Llegué con cincuenta años de adelanto. ¡Cincuenta años!». Lanza una carcajada, la misma que lanzaría ante una broma pesada.