Quotes About Legacy

Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .

T]here exists an allegiance between the dead and the unborn of which we the living are merely the ligature.

I hope you grow up to be as good a mother as your father

If they keep exposing you to education, you might even realize some day that man becomes immortal only in what he writes on paper, or hacks into rock, or slabbers onto a canvas, or pulls out of a piano.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

We of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who participated in the decisions on Vietnam acted according to what we thought were the principles and traditions of this nation. We made our decisions in the light of those values. Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why.

The ancient Greek dramatist Aeschylus wrote, "The reward of suffering is experience." Let this be the lasting legacy of Vietnam.

So I conclude that John Kennedy would have eventually gotten out of Vietnam rather than move more deeply in. I express this judgment now because, in light of it, I must explain how and why we—including Lyndon Johnson—who continued in policy-making roles after President Kennedy's death made the decisions leading to the eventual deployment to Vietnam of half a million U.S. combat troops. Why did we do what we did, and what lessons can be learned from our actions?

Worlds that have died and will never return still live on in my memories, and that truly is a marvel.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

Yet leaving here a name, I trust,That will not perish in the dust.

In my South, the most treasured things passed down from generation to generation are the family recipes.

But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It's not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book. It is the book of America.

My optimism? Where I grew up our principal cultural expression was the funeral. Whatever keeps me going, it isn't optimism.

Reagan's second chief of staff, said it best: no other President of the modern era was so much a presence in the affairs of state without being an actual participant.

There are a few much older states in existence, particularly ancient empires and their successor states such as China or Iran.

John Churchill, soon Duke of Marlborough, was a rare phenomenon: a brilliant English general. He

My favorite joke of his occurred when George was telling me about the joys of grandfatherhood. "If I could have figured out how to have grandchildren without having children first, I would have done so." Later on, I knew just what he meant – high relatedness, no work. Or as Melvin Newton (Huey's brother) once put it, "You can serve them ice cream for breakfast, what do you care?

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

If, for example, you bought a piece of land in which a dead person was interred, you had to pay him suitable homage every year: by doing so you were guaranteed his protection - always useful (Mart., Ep., 10, 61, 5).

according to his will.

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw." In that sense, he observed, "our immediate family is a part of ourselves. Our father and mother, our wife and babes, are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. When they die, a part of our very selves is gone.