Quotes About Legacy

To this group belong not only the genuinely great statesmen but all the great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great we have men such as Martin Luther and Richard Wagner.

There is no fear that modern works of real value will look pale and worthless beside the monuments of the past. That which is contributed to the general store of human culture often fulfills a necessary role, in order to keep the memory of old achievements alive, because this memory alone is the standard whereby our own works are properly appreciated.

comfort to the families of those .who perished, and a final legacy to those who fell. But beyond that

It is necessary that I should die for my people; but my spirit will rise from the grave and the whole world will know that I was right

And all of us pledge ourselves to the one ancient principle: it is of no importance if we ourselves live - as long as our Volk lives, as long as Germany lives! This is essential.

Çünkü tarihin Pantheon'una yaln?z kahramanlar girer, entrikac?lar deÄŸil.

Whoever will not be a hammer in history, will be an anvil.

Germany's fate is the fate of Western Culture.

All the great civilizations of the past decayed because the originally creative race died out, as a result of poisoning of the blood... The ultimate cause of such a decline is the fact that the people forgot that all culture depends on men, and not the reverse. In other words, to preserve a certain culture, the man that creates it must be preserved.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

In the history of art, late works are the catastrophes.

The process of remembering contributes to that which endures.

And it conferred power. The presentee was placed under an obligation to the presenter, and once she had been presented she magically metamorphosed into a presenter herself, able to pass on the gift to others in some curious apostolic succession.

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

When I die,' I said to my friend, 'I'm not going to be embalmed. I'm going to be dipped.' Milk chocolate or bittersweet was the immediate concern.

Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.

Here was my choice: I could continue down the well-trod path upon which I'd been running for so very long and pass along the inheritance like a baton, as blithely as I did my light hair and fair skin. My daughter could do her best to outrun it... Or I could slow down, catch my breath, and look mindfully for a new path. There had to be another way and I owed it to my daughter to find it.

We spoke on the phone regularly and turned to text when she could no longer talk. What would I do without her? Her answer came in her final text message to me, written on the morning of her death: Where is Nora Ephron when we need her? I took this to mean "Embrace the mess, live fully, carry on.

The mother I needed to call my mother was silenced before I was born.

She died a famous woman denying her wounds denying her wounds came from the same source as her power.

The dead" we say   as if speaking of "the people" who gave up on making history simply to get through Something dense and null   groan without echo   underground and owl-voiced I cry Who are these dead people these lovers who if ever did listen no longer answer : We :

Poetry never stood a chance of standing outside history.

The woman who cherished her suffering is dead. I am her descendant. I love the scar-tissue she handed on to me, but I want to go on from here with you fighting the temptation to make a career of pain.

I'm passing the baton on son, you go run with it.