Quotes About Legacy

Jesus was constitutively, not incidentally--a Jew; the Old and the New Testament were organically connected. Jewish history was the father of Christian history.

the greatest tribute to the work of the Navajo is the simple fact that their code is one of very few throughout history that was never broken.

The three Britons had to sit back and watch as their discoveries were rediscovered by Diffie, Hellman, Merkle, Rivest, Shamir and Adleman over the next three years.

In my mind, the most noble way to leave your mark on the world is to expand man's understanding of the world.

Podían los muchachos ser culpados por los pecados de sus progenitores? Ciertamente no eran ellos los responsables

Did he know already that he would get a sunflower when he was buried? The murderer would own something even when he was dead…And I?

And that was about all that he really wished the world to know about himself. "I am a nobody," he would write toward the end of the century, when fame had begun to creep up on him. "Treat me as a solar myth, or an echo, or an irrational quantity, or ignore me altogether." But

Achaemenid Persian

The last surviving slave from the last arriving slaver died in 1935, in a suburb of Mobile, Alabama.

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.

Ze had een hekel aan die anonieme hotelkamers waar zoveel mensen waren geweest zonder sporen achter te laten, waar zij zelf ook geen enkel spoor zou achterlaten. Alles blijft precies hetzelfde als ik er niet meer ben. Dat is wat doodgaan is, dacht ze.

Time vanishes behind those who leave this world, and the older I get the more my past years draw together.

One can not, without absurdity, indefinitely sacrifice each generation to the following one; human history would then be only an endless succession of negations which would never return to the positive.

Destronada pelo advento da propriedade privada, é a ela que o destino da mulher permanece ligado durante os séculos: em grande parte, a sua história confunde-se com a história da herança.

No se muere de haber nacido, ni de haber vivido, ni de vejez. Se muere de algo».

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

Piety in regard to the dead: to do everything for what does not exist.

If we are to perish in the battles of the future, let us do our best to prepare ourselves to perish with a clear vision of the world we shall be leaving behind.

Set your deeds throughout the world that everyone may greet you.

Christianity in China from 150 years prior to the time of its inscription, circa 780.

Authors have the power to bore people long after we are dead. –