Quotes About Legacy

Whatever our religion and our private convictions, we are the collective inheritors of things both excellent and rare, and political life, for us, ought to have one overriding goal, which is to hold fast to those things, in order to pass them on to our children.

If you don't write it down, it never happened. - Roger Tory Peterson

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

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Like I said, "You don't get to pick your name or your parents." Joshua Wood is what he is. I couldn't change him or the fact that he was my father. All I could do is try not to become him.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.

By the creative act, however, we are able to reach beyond our own death. This is why creativity is so important and why we need to confront the problem of the relationship between creativity and death.

Whether we are 'Freudians' or not, as I am not, we are surely all post-Freudian. He set the tone for vast changes in our culture

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

? gyvenim? žvelgiu kaip ? didžiul? estafet?, kurioje kiekvienas m?s? prieš pargri?damas privalo kuo toliau nunešti išš?k? b?ti žmogumi <...>

All men have a legend because of death. Humanity wasn't legendary any longer: it was a myth.

Ta?iau tai bergždžias darbas, ir kai vadiniesi Mikelandželu, Goja, Mocartu, Tolstojumi, Dostojevskiu ar Malro, numiršti negal?damas atsikratyti jausmo, jog kurpei bakal?jos gaminius.

nors beveik vis? m?s? šiandien jau neb?ra gyv?, mes likome linksmi ir dažnai susitinkame gyvi jaun? mus supan?i? žmoni? žvilgsniuose.

You know, Chavez, what Kaiser Wilhelm said after he had caused the death of millions? He said: 'Ich habe das nicht gewollt.' I didn't want THIS to happen. A worthy epitaph for mankind.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

Zijn jullie kinderen van Goethe of van Atilla voeren jullie oorlog tegen de legers of tegen de mensheid, dood de mensen maar respecteer hun werken!

Basta un instante para hacer un héroe, y una vida entera para hacer un hombre.

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

Intensely devotional poetry was written by poets, some of whom were born Muslim but worshipped Hindu deities. One of the best known among them was Sayyad Ibrahim, popularly referred to as Raskhan, whose dohas and bhajans dedicated to the deity Krishna were widely recited in the sixteenth century and are still remembered by devotees of Krishna and others.

Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.

In fact, no immigrant in American history has ever made a larger contribution than Alexander Hamilton.