Quotes About Legacy

Yes, Berel-Ayzik, what you say is all very well and good. But just tell us one more thing. Do they die in America like they do here? Or do they live forever?

Eleven kids from three wives, may no harm come to them, is nothing to sneeze at!

Come to think of it—what are we going to do with our old cantor? We just got a new one, you know. We needed him like a hole in the head.

My father had a good reputation. Not that anyone ever thought of it when he was alive.

My ancestors survived famine and plagues and floods, and I'm going to survive this.

You must understand something, Mr Thompson. What I do has nothing to do with the money or the bricks and steel that make a building. It's the people who matter. I'm able to give them a comfortable place to work or to live, a place where they can raise families and have decent lives. That's what was important to my father, and it became important to me.

we do not inherit the world from our parents; we borrow it from our children.

There are no more statesmen. Countries are being run by politicians. There was a time not too long ago when this earth was peopled with giants. Some were good, and some were evil – but, by God, they were giants. Roosevelt and Churchill, Hitler and Mussolini. Charles de Gaulle and Joseph Stalin. Why did they all live at that one particular time? Why aren't there any statesmen today?

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

Everyone owes nature a death.

O intalnire cu filozoful William James mi-a lasat o impresie de neuitat. Nu am putut sa nu tin minte aceasta scena: in cursul unei plimbari, el s-a oprit deodata, mi-a incredintat servieta si m-a rugat sa continui drumul, el avand sa ma urmeze de indata ce ii va fi trecut criza de anghina pectorala pe care o presimtea. A murit de inima un an mai tarziu; n-am incetat sa-mi doresc un asemenea curaj in fata sfarsitului apropiat.

la importancia intelectual de un profesor académico nos trae consigo necesariamente aquel influjo sobre las jóvenes generaciones que se exterioriza en la creación de una escuela importante y numerosa.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La humanidad progresa. La gente hoy solamente quema mis libros; siglos atrás me hubieran quemado a mí (Sigmund Freud)

I don't want to talk about you, or to hear others talk about you. It's a cliche, of course: we talk about the dead in order to remember them, in order to keep them, in the only way we can, alive. But I have found that the more people say about you, for example those who spoke at the memorial - people who loved you, people who knew you well, people who were very good with words - the further you seem to slip away, the more like a hologram you become.

Before man, the forest; after him, the desert.

could I justify doing something with my life, my one wild and precious life, that I knew, undone, would not be missed?

Wherever they might wander out in the world, whithersoever they might fare, forgetful of their mother, she felt as though for her their life must still be an action of her life, they must still be as one with herself as they had been when she alone in all the world knew of the new life which lay hidden within and drank of her blood and made her cheeks pale." –p. 329-30

Så tenkte jeg, og derfor sa jeg det. Men sørg ikke over dette; ti jeg selv har voldt at slik måtte det ende. Og Gud bedre det for deg, sønn, så du ikke arver vår lykke. Gjør nu som din mor vil; lenge har jeg lengtet etter at mitt hode skulle ligge i hennes fang.

Her granny used to say, We've always been poor as Job's turkey and most likely always will be.

They all knew that she was serious and they all knew what she wasn't saying—that their land was the most important thing they had besides one another.

Indeed the fact that Lord Lucan continued to work without harassment as a publican in Dorking was a tribute to the expertise of Jack the Knife.

A work of art like this,' he tells one of the journalists, 'demands that the life lived in it be a work of art as well. I am certain that Viktor Landauer and his beautiful wife will do the place justice.

Their lesson was simple: our lives are nothing without our past, without our history, without our culture, without our culture and old stones. It all matters, because it gives meaning.

This is what we did with our time; this is how we made it Our Time.