Quotes About Legacy

Man makes his history with the one hand and "holds it up" with the other.

To pay homeage to our past is the only gesture that also includes the future.

For a lover who dies, no matter how forgotten, will take somewhat of you to the grave.

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones

Stravinsky is one of the greatest composers of our time and I truly love many of his works. (...) The marvellous composer has invariably been at the centre of my attention, and I not only studied and listened to his music, but I played it and made my own transcriptions as well.

What galls me is that these sadists always have fans and followers-- and sincere ones at that. The typical example of this is Toscanini.

The Seventh and Eighth symphonies are my requiem.

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones. Too many of our people died and were buried in places unknown to anyone, not even their relatives. It happened to many of my friends. Where do you put the tombstones for Meyerhold or Tukhachevsky? Only music can do that for them. Looking back, I see nothing but ruins, only mountains of corpses... I'm not exaggerating, I mean mountains... I'm sad, I'm grieving all the time.

It's so unfair. People suffered, worked, thought. So much wisdom, so much talent. And they're forgotten as soon as they die. We must do everything possible to keep their memories alive, because we will be treated in the same way ourselves.

A ?ovek valjda traje dok traje u drugome.

ÄŒovek koji se ne pamti, prijatelju moj, nije ni postojao.

Poštovanje se mu?no sti?e. Tako mislim. Ono se ne nasle?uje, kao imanje. Ne može ni da se kupi. Kao ?in i zadovoljstvo. Nikakvom silom ne može da se postigne. Ne možeš ni da ga izmoliš. Najgore je s poštovanjem, moj gospodine vodni?e, što se ono najteže sa?uva. Otmu ti ga ljudi, pojede ti ga vreme. Malo je ljudi koji poštovanje odnesu u grob.

Život ionako nikada nije bio moja jabuka. I ništa moje ne?e ostati ni na jednoj obali.

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

in her mother's wedding gown

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.

Longing on a large scale is what makes history.

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

forget the ink, the milk, the blood - all was washed clean with the flood we rose up from the falling waters the fallen rain's own sons and daughters and none of this, none of this matters.

In un epoca di relativismo morale, dare la tua parola non significa tanto, immagino. Ma mio padre mi aveva insegnato che è l'unica cosa che hai che nessuno potrà mai portarti via. L'unica cosa che puoi dare e allo stesso tempo mantenere.