Quotes About Legacy

If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.

Did Revere make history or did Longfellow?

Infrastructure eventually becomes obsolete, but education perpetuates itself as one smart generation teaches the next. In the United States and Europe, industrialization rarely encouraged education.

The meritocratic society has given way to a hereditary meritocracy. The children of the rich are overwhelmingly likely to stay rich.

With chisels and pickaxes we made our tiny contributions to this orgy of historic vandalism.

Deberiamos respetar a los muertos y honrar lo diferentes que eran de nosotros en lugar de hacerlo para celebrar su capacidad de precedernos o la nuestra para superarlos

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

A] new idea will, like mother earth, take some serious hits. If good it will survive, probably in modified form. If bad it will die, usually at the time of death or retirement of the last original proponent. As Paul Samuelson once said of the science of economics: funeral by funeral, theory advances.

A few women had cried, remembering the way Henry smiled or how he would join them in singing or thinking that the death ofanyone, good or bad, master or not, cut down one more tree in the life forest that shielded them from their own death; but most said or did nothing.

For the increase in the number of my Brennan cousins," Conall remarked dryly, "we must thank the potato.

What he needed Gorham to understand - what his son was heir to - the thing that really mattered - was the New Yorkers indomitable spirit

Sam Goldwyn hated above all others was Mayer, who had forced Sam out after he and Louis had formed MGM. "Once Mayer told him to dump you, your future was secure.

Roads go on While we forget, and are Forgotten like a star That shoots and is gone.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

Ah well, he thought, we do what we can. It makes little difference but we have to do it anyway. Stern's words, he suddenly realized. Stern's very own words spoken to him long ago, whispered now in the shadows in another time and place altogether. Strange, he thought. Time is.

Some of our people that are dead took the original of their death here.

Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, /And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

Personally, I can do very little, but I can contribute to a whole chain of events, and that's a marvelous feeling. It's like a bonus to me towards the end of my life. It gives me a voice." (Audrey Hepburn)

If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.

The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.