Quotes About Legacy

They had lived and known glory, and then they were ddead. She was alive and they were not, and nothing but a heartbeat separated her from them

It's only a house, she thought. But it was more, too. It was Tibby's elaborate, respectable shrine to a family life that had long ago ebbed out of it.

An old saying went back to the time of the Venerable Bede: "As long as the Colosseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Colosseum falls, Rome will fall; when Rome falls, the world will fall."11 The Roman people seemed sorely neglectful of this vital harbinger of the world's fate. It was used as a limestone quarry, as an open-air market, and, in the case of the Frangipane and Annibaldi clans, as a fortified palace from which to wage violent feuds against their enemies.

Quite amazing how determined kings and emperors have been to destroy books. But civilization is built on such desecrations, is it not? Justinian the Great burned all of the Greek scrolls in Constantinople after he codified the Roman law and drove the Ostrogoths from Italy. And Shih Huang Ti, the first Emperor of China, the man who unified the five kingdoms and built the Great Wall, decreed that every book written before he was born should be destroyed.

It's amazing — and poignant — to think that Leonardo (da Vinci)did consider himself as something of a failure. He didn't believe that he had achieved everything he might have done. His notebooks have a repeated refrain: 'Tell me if I ever did a thing.

Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to watch out for.

I think it's love that lasts. It's love that remembers us. It's love that is left, when we are gone. I think those feelings are more real than our bodies and all the things that can go wrong with them.

To engage with the Church's past is to see something of the Church's future.

T. S. Eliot, faced with the glib modern claim that 'we know so much more than our ancestors', riposted, 'Yes; and they are what we know.

The Kennedy organization doesn't run, it purrs.

She's my retirement gift, the platinum watch for being a mother." " This fortunate position - the one you couldn't apply for - is one you can't lose either. It's yours for life: this will always be your daughter's daughter. These two will always be yours, and you, theirs. I'll always be her Nana.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

In the tales he concocted about his adoptive family, Stanley claimed to be raised by parents who taught self-control. The dying words he ascribed to his fantasy mother were "Be a good boy.

His mother was, as they say, of good family, but the father who died before he knew him was a tradesman. And his mother's Catholic family had a trade too, to which he did not feel even the slightest bit drawn, and that trade was martyrdom. Thomas More, beheaded for refusing to condone Henry VIII's schism, was his great-grand-uncle; an uncle was imprisoned and exiled for being a Jesuit; his brother died in jail of plague for harbouring a priest.

Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch—terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.

Ah! Que linda prova de amor é plantar uma árvore para que alguém amado, ausente, possa se assentar à sua sombra.

Mas há uma tristeza. Sinto-me como Ravel, que, ao ver aproximar-se o fim, dizia, num lamento: "Mas há tantas músicas esperando ser escritas!

Eu gostaria que uma graça semelhante me fosse concedida: poder preparar o fim da minha vida como um compositor termina a sua sonata – para deixá-la perfeita e completa, como herança àqueles a quem amo, obra de arte acabada e bela. Mas a vida não acontece assim.

momentos de amor leve com as pessoas que amo, e uma infinidade de cenas, como se fossem fotografias, que ficaram gravadas na minha memória. Quando eu morrer, vão se perder. Mas não quero que se percam. Tenho de dá-las para alguém que tome conta delas. Aí me vem a aflição por escrever. Quando escrevo, estou lutando contra a morte. A morte das coisas que o meu amor ajuntou e que vão se perder quando eu morrer.

I want to make sure I continue to make good music that my mom and everybody around me can be proud of.

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

Ay, every generation, every man is a part of his past. He cannot escape it, but he may reform the old materials, make something new

Lo, all our pomp of yesterdayIs one with Nineveh and Tyre!