Quotes About Legacy

he should be remembered as the first pope in history to undertake an active defense of the Jewish people, wherever they might be found.

consumption that had accounted for his father, his elder brother and his bastard son, and which was soon to carry off his legitimate son, King Edward VI.

En mi lápida quiero que diga: «Estaba loco, pero al menos lo intentó.» —¡Papá!

why are we remembered for our failures? Why do defeats and retreats mean more than victories?

No one will be buried with the epitaph 'He maximised shareholder value

I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.

When I have fears that I may cease to beBefore my pen has glean'd my teeming brain.

The grandeur of the doomsWe have imagined for the mighty dead.

It was thus that the keynote of existence was struck for me, one of mirth even in the dark of storm, and that I have since become the oldest man that ever lived, and shall doubtless continue to the end of time to hold the record for longevity, I attribute to nothing else than that, thanks to my father's droll humor, I was born smiling.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

You have many years to livedo things you will be proud to remember when you're old.

You've got to look after yourself, nothing comes for free and you've got to do the other bloke before he does you. That's what the pensioners don't realise. They might be owed something but there's nobody left to cough up. It's a different world now. The war spirit is dead and gone, packaged and sold off to the highest bidder.

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.

moledro n. a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you'll never meet, who may have lived centuries ago and thousands of miles away but can still get inside your head and leave behind morsels of their experience, like the little piles of stones left by hikers that mark a hidden path through unfamiliar territory.

Fei Xiaoton, the University of Chicago - trained Chinese sociologist, once observed, this nation is "a land without ghosts," a place where people are so busy with promises of progress that they have forgotten where they come from and who their ancestors were...

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

The whole country is a Franciscan monastery compared to Hong Kong. It is like a fusty family firm where the paterfamilias died years ago and they have carried on doing everything in exactly the same way, except somebody installed a 1924 cash register a year or so ago, and since then everybody has been congratulating themselves on how up to date they are. Money is a typhoon, and Britain has so far felt only its first faint breath.

It is better to live rich than to die rich. SAMUEL JOHNSON

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

Sometimes a man stands up during supper and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking, because of a church that stands somewhere in the East. And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead. And another man, who remains inside his own house, dies there, inside the dishes and in the glasses, so that his children have to go far out into the world toward that same church, which he forgot.

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.