Quotes About Legacy

Gutzon Borglum, the man most famous for sculpting Mount Rushmore.

Wherever humans had set foot, the carnage had been so brutal, so extraordinary, and so quick that the very thing making the killers rich was nearly eradicated in a hundred years' time.

There were no more heroes. Kennedy was dead, shot by an assassin in Dallas. Batman and Robin were dead... Superman was missing...

History is no longer, as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis , a remembrance. Ir is rather a thrust into the future.

You might forget the day you saw a dead body in the street, but the death of Hamlet haunts you forever.

In the long run, it's not how much money you make. It's how much you keep, and how many generations you keep it.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes." ? Joseph Stalin

If you're lucky you live long enough to see the bad results of your good ideas.

Every book that has been printed is, after all, a grave for its author, isn't it?

As younger men watch you and me running our gun lap, any anxiety they may feel about getting older should evaporate, simply by watching how we're doing it, by seeing what Christ can make possible even in our aging, diminishing years.

But in 1982 (one year before Barack graduated), Barack Obama, Sr., died in a car accident. He

So if there is one most important gift we can give to the next generation it is that of a solid and satisfying marriage relationship.

However much science and educational theory and advanced thinking you pump into a college or a university, it always retains a strong hint of its medieval origins.

It is a bad thing to forsake the old ways, and what is once lost can never quite be recovered." (Briggs

Cattle die, and kinsmen die, And we will die ourselves; But fair fame never dies For the one who can achieve it.

Who should accomplish your deeds? Who should carry your virtues and vices? You do not come to an end with your life, and the dead will besiege you terribly to live your unlived life. Everything must be fulfilled. Time is of the essence, so why do you want to pile up the lived, and let the unlived rot? -C.G. Jung, from Liber Novus

Era riuscita a tenere con se un pezzo dell'anima di sua madre, che avrebbe per sempre fatto parte di lei, una spina dorsale per mantenerla forte negli anni a venire, un secondo cuore che avrebbe battuto nel suo petto.

The world turned, and new stories rose up, and the legends of the old days faltered a little, or turned themselves in their course to keep up with the lives of their people, and the lives of great-grandchildren of those they had first known.

The veterans of the Somme have gone now but while they lived they talked incessantly of the mud of the Somme, mud which permeated everything, clogged rifles, flowed like lava into dugouts and trenches, sucked off boots, drowned wounded men and horses and made movement either impossible or a tremendous physical effort. To fight on the Somme was bad enough; to also fight the mud of the Somme was simply too much.

the credit for developing the basic idea into what became the first tank must go to Winston Churchill

Everyone dreams of being a legend until it comes time to do the work that legends do.

There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead.

when you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice." We live in an age when we have forgotten what life is all about.

Son, when you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice.