Quotes About Legacy

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

Nobody is born as a teacher and only a few die as a teacher!

Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan served this country well, he did not celebrate his birthday, he celebrated it for teachers.

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

It actually has transcended my career at the Geographic, so that when my career there ended, I had momentum as a teacher, and a belief in photographic education at the workshop level.

The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.

Describing Robert Bunsen:As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest.

My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher.

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

Was it possible that some men possessed so great a force of character that they could stamp themselves upon their words such that no matter where they were read, or when, or in what language, their own distinctive tones would always be heard?

ON THE BANKS of every great river you'll find a monument to excess." Kanai recalled the list of examples Nirmal had provided to prove this: the opera house of Manaus, the temple of Karnak, the ten thousand pagodas of Pagan. In the years since, he had visited many of those places, and it made him laugh to think his uncle had insisted that Canning too had a place on that list: "The mighty Matla's monument is Port Canning.

How was possible that a small no of men, in the span of a few hours or minutes, could decide the fate of millions of people yet unborn ? How was it possible that the outcome of those brief moments could determine who would determine who would rule whom, who would be rich or poor, master or servant, for generations to come ? Nothing could be a greater injustice, yet such had been the reality ever since human beings first walked the earth.

Kad sam bio dijete, nadao sam se da ?u kad odrastem postati knjiga. Ne književnik, nego knjiga. Ljude se može pobiti kao mrave, pa ni književnike nije teško ubiti. Ali za knjigu, ?ak i ako je sustavno unište, postoji šansa da se neki primjerak spasio i da ?e nastaviti živjeti na polici, živjeti nijemim životom na nekoj od zaboravljenih polica u nekoj zaba?enoj knjižnici, u Rejkjaviku, Valladolidu ili Vancouveru.

after two thousand years we've established a state so as to have someone to steal from.

You've held the world in your hands for thousands of years and you've turned it into a horror show.

only until the children are born. Your life is your own only for a short time:

A man who has the ability to generate a new word and to inject it into the bloodstream of the language seems to me only a little lower than the Creator of light and darkness. If you write a book, you may be fortunate enough to be read for a while, until other, better books come along and take its place; but to produce a new word is to approach immortality.

We are all Judas. Even eighty generations later we are still Judas.

Denk eraan dat je alles kant en klaar hebt aangetroffen, van sterrenlicht tot olijven, of zeep, van klein tot groot, van laken tot herfst. Het kan geen kwaad om in ruil een paar fatsoenlijke regels na te laten.

You cannot write without looking behind you; like Lot's wife. And in doing so you turn yourself and them into blocks of salt.