Quotes About Legacy

Hardly any of the names of ancient artists are recorded, even though they did more for the happiness of their people than the pharoahs, generals, and world rulers whose pride filled the world with sorrow.

Modelos de estilo: el juramento, el telegrama y el epitafio.

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

He leaves in the background of fame all other navigators whose names are written in the priceless annals of discovery.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

Cromwell fu il primo capo vittorioso di una rivoluzione moderna che abbia trasformato la repubblica in una dittatura personale, e la dittatura personale in una dittatura ereditaria.

Non siamo più ai tempi dei Pizarro, degli Almagro, dei Cortez, i grandi conquistatori degli imperi americani. Che disgrazia non essere nati due o trecento anni fa! Io e Sandokan avremmo forse conquistata anche l'Africa intera.

I died for Beauty—but was scarceAdjusted in the TombWhen One who died for Truth, was lainIn an adjoining Room—

Irish heroes, for one reason or another, have come off, it must be owned, but poorly before the bar of history.

We carry our past with us everywhere we go.

The leading statesmen in a free country have great momentary power. They settle the conversation of mankind. It is they who, by a great speech or two, determine what shall be said and what shall be written for long after.

Theodora never married. Love did not, however, kill her—at least, if it did, it was a long time at the task, as she survived these events more than sixty years. She never, seemingly, forgot the past.

Respect is traditional; it is given not to what is proved to be good, but to what is known to be old.

The facts will be known to our children's children, though not to us.

People Donnot Recognise Someone Importance Until His Death.

You can turn me into dust but you can neither kill nor can suppress my ideology. Rather my ideology will spread with greater intense after my death.

When you have a child, you get a surge of ambition, or a surge of hormonal urgency, to get something done, something worthy of your new station in life.

What does it mean to be a great poet? It means that you wrote one or two great poems. Or great parts of poems. That's all it means. Don't try to picture the waste or it will alarm you.

I was with Bobby Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel. I was a rookie cop in L.A. when RFK came through. I just stood there and watched a man who should have gone on to be president bleed to death on the floor. Every day since then I've wondered what I could have done differently.

My country is filled with the metal carcasses of Soviet tanks. The farmers just plow around them.

It is a sentimental error ... to believe that the past is dead.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

History, again, tells us of successive civilizations which have been born, have for a space thriven exceedingly, and have then miserably perished.

I began to count the pools, each a flare of turquoise light lost behind the high walls of the villas with their screens of cycads and bougainvillaea. Ten thousand years in the future, long after the Côte d'Azur had been abandoned, the first explorers would puzzle over these empty pits, with their eroded frescoes of tritons and stylized fish, inexplicably hauled up the mountainsides like aquatic sundials or the altars of a bizarre religion devised by a race of visionary geometers.