Quotes About Legacy

the last great dynasty of Byzantine emperors, the Palaiologoi, to rule from Constantinople.8

Constantinople had been saved, and with it the Greek-speaking Roman Empire.

already more than a thousand years old before anyone ever lived on this bare stretch of desert shore.

The sun first catches the tops of the pyramids of Giza, which are already some fifteen hundred years old.

To make an example of them, Alexander had them sent back to Macedonia in chains

were in charge and known as the Antigonids.

Constantinople was now the largest and richest city in Europe

Philip ('Horse-Loving'), Cleopatra ('Father's Fame'), Ptolemy ('Warlike

Socrates had been born in Athens in 469 BCE. His career would span the entire second half of the century

What language the people here speak, or what name they give to the place, will not be recorded for posterity.

that had ruled there between about 1600 and 1450 BCE.

the Greek-speaking Roman Empire after the death of Heraclius in 641 had turned into the Byzantine.

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

War leaves a legacy of human suffering that does not end with peace.

This is from an Indian comedian named Charlie Hill: "They say Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean. My people were living here for hundreds and hundreds of years. We never noticed it? "One day the chief took his son to the top of a mountain. As they looked out over the hills and valleys, he spread his arms wide and said, 'Son, someday none of this will be yours.

In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.

Andy also skipped his wife's private burial in the Brooklin Cemetery, in July, 1977. None of us in the family expected otherwise or held this against him. And when his own memorial came, eight years later, I took the chance to remark, "If Andy White could be with us today he would not be with us today.

Only two months after the battle he wrote a sad description of his own fate: "I spend my time building castles in the air, but in the end all of them, and I, blow away in the end." It is an epitaph that might serve all the empire builders of the violent century.

Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare.

The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'

If Newton had not, as Wordsworth put it, voyaged through strange seas of thought alone, someone else would have. If Marie Curie had not lived, we still would have discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium. But if J. K. Rowling had not been born, we would never have known about Harry Potter. That is why Master Potter means so much to me. Science may be special but Harry, as a work of art, is more so. Harry Potter is unique.

Ginsberg turned out to be depressingly prescient when, after a heated argument with Norman Podhoretz in 1958, he yelled, 'We'll get you through your children!' For countless American families, that turned out to be only too true.

My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.

Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.