Quotes About Legacy

Tutto si cancellerà in un secondo. Il dizionario costruito termine dopo termine dalla culla all'ultimo giaciglio si estinguerà. Sarà il silenzio, e nessuna parola per dirlo. Dalla bocca aperta non uscirà nulla. Né io né me. La lingua continuerà a mettere il mondo in parole. Nelle conversazioni attorno a una tavolata in festa saremo soltanto un nome, sempre più senza volto, finché scompariremo nella massa anonima di una generazione lontana.

De taal zal de wereld in woorden blijven vatten. In de gesprekken rond een feesttafel zul je alleen nog een voornaam zijn, een steeds gezichtlozer voornaam, totdat je verdwijnt in de anonieme massa van een verre generatie.

J'ai fini de mettre au jour l'héritage que j'ai dû déposer au seuil du monde bourgeois et cultivé quand j'y suis entrée.

Il avait appris la condition essentielle pour ne pas reproduire la misère des parents : ne pas s'oublier dans une femme.

Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais. »

Ver con la imaginación o volver a ver por medio de la memoria es el patrimonio de la escritura.

I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

As time went by, it mattered less and less that in 1969 a rocket went from Florida to the moon and men walked there. Good men. People's dads. Those were only events, scattered in time. Draw them close, rub them between thumb and finger till they look like larvae, soften like silk, distend to knot, to weave. It takes a village to kill a child.

The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have.

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

After God had carried us safe to New-England, and wee had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for Gods worship, and setled the Civill Government: One of the next things we longed for, and looked after was to advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministery to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust.

May he rest in peace.

My father and my mother were professional footballers and have also been coaches.

No athlete ever ends his or her career the way you want to. We all want to play forever. But it doesn't work that way. Accepting the end gracefully is part of being a professional athlete.

I played 13 years. I did quite well in professional football. Therefore, I do not need.

I always watched professional football and my father played at an amateur level, but I didn't think I wanted to become a pro.

My motivation in personal and professional life is my dad because the way he has played and inspired many other players to play cricket the correct way. He had a great professional life and has always been an outspoken man.

I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.

My parents were just as smart as I am, just as hard working if not harder; I think my father and grandfather were probably better men, yet I've been able to accomplish things professionally that they were not able to.

I think for everything that people say about me as a person today - whether it's about being disciplined and grounded or whatever - I think a lot of it is a credit to my father, who has been a massive influence in my life both professionally and personally.

Doris Roberts had an energy and a spirit that amazed me. She never stopped. Whether working professionally or with her many charities or just nurturing and mentoring a green young comic trying to make it as an actor, she did everything with such a grand love for life and people, and I will miss her dearly.

Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind.

I'm glad to take on the role of a domestic because many of your black leaders, your educators, your professionals came from domestic parents who made sacrifices to see that their children didn't go through what they did.