Quotes About Legacy

But we mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of the intellectuals.

what are the generations for, please explain to me? Only to repeat fear and desire without a change? This cannot be what the thing is for, over and over and over. Any good man will try to break the cycle.

He was the obscure failure of an aggressive and powerful clan.

The subject of all this talk is, ultimately, survival—the survival of the decent society created in Israel within a few decades.

Israelis must, in fact, bear in mind four thousand years of Jewish history. The world has been thrown into their arms and they are required to perform an incredible balancing act.

The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.

And what of ourselves? Are we really completely outside this mechanism? The people who come after us, won't they find aspects of sacrificial thinking even in the way we use anti-sacrificial theory?

They knew that their story wasn't over when their life was over—that their bodies, somehow, someway, were destined to be a part of that story, and so it mattered where and how those bodies were buried. When the day came to go to the "city" God had "prepared for them," they wanted to walk into that city together, as a family.

Other than when dealing with exception-unsafe legacy code (which we'll discuss later in this Item), offering no exception safety guarantee should be an option only if your crack team of requirements analysts has identified a need for your application to leak resources and run with corrupt data structures. As

Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy. In the end, all you get is a few words.

And yes, it all might end at any moment for any of us, in violence or not, but what matters is what we do before that. The lives we lead.

That is one of the tragedies of aging, appreciating how many good and interesting people have passed by unknown.

We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in...

it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.

This beauty would remain whether he was here to see it or not.

THALES. Maybe so. Still, I'll defend a life Lived worthily in its brief time on earth. PROTEUS. A life like yours, yes—it persists Well past the bounds of mortal days. Among the crowd of pale and drifting ghosts 8620 I've noticed you these many centuries.

A useless life is an early death.

True, the Immortals appointed Fame, and Fate, As the two ambiguous, doubtful companions

Oh God, art is forever, And our life is brief.

Time is master: age lies on the sand.

What dazzles is a Momentary act: What's true is left for posterity, intact.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Ah, God! but Art is long, And Life, alas! is fleeting.

Oh, God! Art is long And life is short.