Quotes About Legacy

Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.

Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind.

what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history.

None of us here want to see our children follow in our footsteps, it's too hard a life.

for Justice, we must go to Don Corleone.

Yet he thought, if I die saying Life is beautiful, then nothing else is important.

destiny had decided that he was to become a Don and had brought Fanucci to him to set him on his destined path.

no longer fearing the cost. "For justice we must go on our knees to Don Corleone.

Always remember that and live your life not to be a hero but to remain alive. With time, heroes seem a little foolish.

With a great effort the Don opened his eyes to see his son once more. ... He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, Life is so beautiful. ... Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, Life is so beautiful, then nothing else is important. If I can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.

men in general sooner forget the lost their matrimony than the death of their father

You are alive and he is dead. Always remember that and live your life not to be a hero but to remain alive.

But great men are not born great, they grow great, and so it was with Vito Corleone.

Ah, Sicily, Sicily, he thought, you destroy your best and bring them to dust.

dormitorio? Kay, después de beber un buen sorbo, sonrió y repuso: —Bueno. Para ella, todo fue casi igual a como había sido antes, salvo que Michael era ahora más rudo, más directo, menos tierno.

Ni en la guerra debe haber muertos inutiles. Usted me entiende, vaya al colegio y trate en el futuro de que la muerte del cadete Arana sirve para algo.

Nunca te dejes pisotear por nadie, hijo. Este consejo es la única herencia que vas a tener.

Germany represented the future because it carried no colonial ballast

Se, all'improvviso, sentissimo che stiamo per morire e ci domandassimo: quale traccia lasceremo del nostro passaggio per questo canile?, la risposta corretta sarebbe: nessuna, non abbiamo fatto niente se non parlare per conto di altri. Che cosa significherebbe, altrimenti, aver tradotto milioni di parole d cui non ne ricordiamo neppure una, perchè nessuna meritava di essere ricordata?

Always live your life with your biography in mind, Dad was fond of saying. Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

My films are just stories, but that's all we have, the stories we tell others and the stories we tell ourselves. When you talk to the elderly, men and women at the end of their lives, you see that's what's left behind as the body disintegrates. Our stories. Our children will decide whether or not to keep telling them.

the Boston Tea Party was the work of 1777-era frat boys)

So I would die in here. I'd leave my little life. I'd barely worn it out. Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closest, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, downpours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone.

Always life your life with your biography in mind. Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a magnificent reason, but at the very least you'll be living grandly.