Quotes About Legacy

the gods I am indebted for having good grandfathers, good parents, a good sister, good teachers, good associates, good kinsmen and friends, nearly everything good.

such is Death, a greater change, from what now is, not to what is not, but to what is not now. Shall I then no longer be? Not so; thou wilt be; but something different, of which the World now hath need. For thou too wert born not when thou chosest, but when the World had need of thee.

Birth after birth the line unchanging runs, And fathers live transmitted in their sons; Each passing year beholds the unvarying kinds, The same their manners, and the same their minds:Till, as erelong successive buds decay, And insect-shoals successive pass away, Increasing wants the pregnant parent vex With the fond wish to form a softer sex. ..

It is often hazardous to marry an heiress, as she is not unfrequently the last of a diseased family.

Druk, odbicie, to w istocie wg??bienie uzyskane za pomoc? nacisku; dzieje drukarstwa, to historia zanikania tych wg??bie?.

destruction of the past, or rather the social mechanisms that link one's contemporary experience to that of earlier generations, is one of the most characteristic and eerie phenomena of the late twentieth century. Most young men and women at the century's end grow up in a permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times in which they live

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

A nation's preoccupation with history is not infrequently an effort to obtain a passport for the future. Often it is a forged passport.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!

Today, our communities are full of children whose future, like Jelani's, will be formed in the places where they go to learn about themselves and the world they'll inherit. They deserve palaces. Whether they get them is up to us.

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

You want to be a poet and not die.

The Greeks—who knew everything—knew that immortality without youth was to be feared rather than desired.

Mothers and daughters -- it's a comedy, but also a tragedy. We fill our daughters with all the chutzpah we wish for ourselves. We want them to be free as we were not. And then we resent them for being so free. We resent them for being what we have made! With granddaughters, it's so much easier. And great-granddaughters.

Every woman artist has to kill her own grandmother. She perches on our shoulder whispering, Don't embarrass the family.

Momo: [reading Ibrahim's will] This is my will and testament. I, Ibrahim Demirdji, hereby leave all my goods to Moses Schmitt, my son Momo because he chose me as his father and because I've given him everything I've learned in this life. Now you too will know what's in my Koran, Momo. It's all there is to know.

PoÅ'o?yÅ' mi rÄ™kÄ™ na ramieniu, utkwiÅ' we mnie swe jasne tÄ™czówki i, cho? dzisiaj nie potrafiÄ™ stwierdzi?, czy to powiedziaÅ', czy zrozumiaÅ'em go bez sÅ'ów, daÅ' mi swojÄ… ostatniÄ… radÄ™ Saharyjczyka: - Nie zapomnij tego, co niezapomniane.

A?a zicea Fontenelle: un trandafir n-a v?zut niciodat? un gr?dinar murind.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

And I knew it was true, that my words were made of stones, that they would last and I would climb them.

Using rage as fuel for living was a family tradition.

The dangerous plant did not flower in every generation, they said.

People have the wrong idea about cemeteries. They're built for the living, not the dead. If ghosts do exist, I think they are much more likely to attach themselves to people than places.