Quotes About Legacy

I'm the one erased. Or I guess I'm not even that, because the thing about being erased is that first you have to leave a mark.

the thing about being erased is that first you have to leave a mark.

Erased means you disappear. It's more like you've been…forcibly evicted from your old life. You're still leaving your mark, you're just doing it somewhere else.

There's this poem," Cassidy finally said, "by Mary Oliver. And I used to write a line from it in all of my school notebooks to remind myself that I didn't have to be embarrassed of the past and afraid of the future. And it helped. So I'm giving it to you. The line is, 'Tell me, what is it you plan to do/With your one wild and precious life?

haven't you ever thought about it?' Nick asked. 'What you want to leave behind, and what you don't?' 'Not really.

There's this poem," Cassidy finally said, "by Mary Oliver. And I used to write a line from it in all of my school notebooks to remind myself that I didn't have to be embarrassed of the past and afraid of the future. And it helped. So I'm giving it to you. The line is, 'Tell me, what is it you plan to do/With your one wild and precious life?'" We

The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.

Tamás glances down at the floor of his Budapest living room. "We have so many problems today because fathers never talked to their sons as my father did to me in 1963.

Create Small Fortresses of Memory Figes's observation points to one source of resistance: the family and the cultural memories it passes on. Paul Connerton highlights another: religion.

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.

Formerly, a fixture of the summer, formerly a rather minor component to a hot July, but throughout his life, a man beloved by the children, and therefore a most important man.

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.

The 'Persian Wars', as the two campaigns of 490 BCE and 480–479 BCE have been known ever since, were over.

In the absence of the principle of hereditary rule

By the time Justinian died in 565, aged over eighty

But then Cyrus was killed in a battle on the banks of the Euphrates in 401 BCE.

the 'decline and fall of the Roman empire' began with the death of Marcus

After the death of Commodus in 192 CE, civil war and empire-wide chaos lasted

This was what the Spartans had most dreaded for centuries. Now it came to pass.

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (the Great), better known in English as Pompey

Isocrates was ninety years old in 346 BCE but as active an opinion-former as ever.

Among the last words that Isocrates ever wrote, before his death at the age of ninety-eight