Quotes About Legacy

The camera has a short memory. But the pen remembers forever.

Every good thing we know would be lost to darkness, all unremembered, if each had not been preserved for us by some sinner with a pen.

When he did speak, Mike still didn't answer me. He just said, "Life's funny, chucklehead. You only get one and you don't want to throw it away. But you can't really live it at all unless you're willing to give it up for the things you love. If you're not at least willing to die for something— something that really matters—in the end you die for nothing.

I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.

Love never dies. Love will continue. Love keeps on beating when you're gone. Love never dies once it is in you. Life may be fleeting; love lives on! Life may be fleeting! Love lives on...

It's a terrible mistake to let the perfect get in the way of the good. If you wait to publish until you have written a great book, you will never publish anything. Great books happen by chance, not by design. The wise writer writes the best he can and leaves it to posterity to decide about greatness.

As for Mustafa Kemal, he was to tell the English journalist Grace Ellison in 1923: 'I don't like Napoleon at all. He intruded his person into everything. He fought not for a cause, but for himself. That's why he came to a bad end. It's inevitable for such people.'45

My dream is that by returning to our not-so-distant history, I might remind readers why, with all its faults, this is a lucky place to be living in, and one we can be quietly proud of.

When they finally went home, they left behind an unstable, unhappy part of the world, with borders like wounds scored across it.

Em apenas vinte e cinco anos, Gengis Khan conquistou uma área maior da superfície da Terra do que aquela que os Romanos conseguiram em quatro séculos, criando (mesmo que por um período muito reduzido) o maior império terrestre da História.

Diz-se que entre os seus alunos alexandrinos esteve Arquimedes, o matemático e engenheiro que, reza a lenda, foi morto por um soldado romano após o cerco de Siracusa porque se recusou a abandonar um problema que estava a estudar - «Não venha interferir com os meus círculos», teria ele dito.

Some of the greatest of great men have also been the biggest bastards alive. As

Some of the greatest of great men have also been the biggest bastards

We stand not on the shoulders of giants, but on the shoulders of our grandparents and of our great-great-great-grandparents too.

Our lives aren't worth dying over.

She really was an excellent host, however many people her family had enslaved and murdered.

When they're alive, it's easy to see the flaws. When they're gone, you tend to notice only the hole in the Earth that they left.

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It's like the old stories

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what she did during her lifetime but in the meaning of her life, the inspiration she gave to others, particularly women, to search for their own truth.

As historians reflect on her renown and her legacy, they will come to judge Diana, Princess of Wales as one of the most influential figures of this, or any other, age. For as long as there are poets, playwrights and men with hearts to break, tales will be told of the princess who died across the water and returned home to be crowned a queen, the queen of all our hearts. Diana, Princess of Wales. She wrote poetry in our souls. And made us wonder.

Kelly stepped out from behind him and my father showed more emotion. Parents always give their grandchildren more affection, I thought. It's as if when their children reach a certain age, that display has to be constricted and put into storage until the grandchildren come along and it can be revived.