Quotes About Legacy

Una verdad, una fe, una generación de hombres pasa, se la olvida, ya no cuenta. Excepto para aquellos pocos, tal vez, que creyeron esa verdad, profesaron esa fe o amaron a esos hombres. Joseph Conrad. Juventud

Una verdad, una fe, una generación de hombres pasa, se la olvida, ya no cuenta. Excepto para aquellos pocos, tal vez, que creyeron esa verdad, profesaron esa fe o amaron a esos hombres. Joseph Conrad.

Lo que se han de comer los gusanos, que lo disfruten los cristianos.

Gibraltareño de padre maltés y madre inglesa, o sea, tradición pirata total.

Cualquier hombre cabal puede escoger la forma y el lugar donde morir, pero nadie elige las cosas que recuerda. Capitán Alatriste

el dinero de los tontos es el patrimonio de los listos.

cualquier hombre cabal puede escoger la forma y el lugar donde morir, pero nadie elige las cosas que recuerda.

Quizá los hombres que fueron acariciados por muchas mujeres crucen el valle de las sombras con menos remordimiento, o con menos miedo»...

nada menos que con tres reyes al frente, en un tiempo en el que los reyes se la jugaban en el campo de batalla, y no casándose con lady Di o cayéndose en los escalones del bungalow mientras cazaban elefantes.

En eso, como muchos mexicanos, Huerta es injusto —opinó—. Gran parte de lo que se ha hecho de bueno lo hicieron los españoles. Incluso a pesar de las antiguas crueldades y la codicia actual.

A fin de cuentas, se consoló, por mucho que duela y tardes en morir, al final siempre te mueres. Y quien muere, descansa.

Las leyendas sólo sobreviven vistas de lejos.

Nadie debería irse sin dejar una Troya ardiendo a sus espaldas.

You would be surprised. There are people whose sense of identity at the end of life doesn't go beyond: I own this house; earn so much; have four children; drive this car; have so much in the bank and so on. Maybe such identity is not enough for you.

A final word might not echo for ages but silence stays for eternity.

But the world turned, and it changed, and eventually all tyrants fell to become dust.

They'd had a long chat, Elsie Gormley and this house, more than sixty years of it. It had witnessed all her tempers, all her moods, and usually improved them. It held her voice, her husband's, her children's, and now their children's in turn - echoes and repetitions lodged in around the baseboards, around the window frames like those pale motes of dust that had wedged at the edge of the kitchen floor.

He had loved her without question and he had loved her without pause; she was certain of that. He had thought the best of her always; he'd brought her the one life sh'd wanted. Who would she be now, she wondered, without him? Who was Elsie Gormley if Clem Gormley's idea of her was no longer alive?

I've loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos.

To do good is difficult. One who does good first does something hard to do. I have done many good deeds, and, if my sons, grandsons and their descendants up to the end of the world act in like manner, they too will do much good. But whoever amongst them neglects this, they will do evil. Truly, it is easy to do evil.

I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.

At this moment, I am not so concerned about myself. Everybody has to die sometime, and all I want is to go with dignity.

Life is a one time offer, use it well

Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.