Abba Eban Quotes

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

But monument themselves memorials need.

In my twisted brain, I truly believe that nobody ever really dies, as long as the people that he or she touched continue to spread their legacy. I miss Eddie Guerrero. Eddie Guerrero was a great man. So right now, I don't want to hear 'CM Punk', you know the name I wanna hear.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.

I think in some ways it's good to have at least one thing for which you could be really immortal, you know?

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

Being cast in marble is something that every Vice President looks forward to. It’s not only a high honor, but it’s our only shot at being remembered.

Mankind, devising some consolation for the frail and precarious duration of human life, have thought by the erection of monuments to glorify the memories of their ancestors with immortal honors. Some have employed the vivid delineations and colors of painting; some have carved statues from lifeless blocks of wood; while others, by engraving their inscriptions deep on tablets and monuments, have thought to transmit the virtues of those whom they honored to perpetual remembrance.

I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I don't want people to just remember me for one thing.

I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.

To be in a position where an organization like the Bulls creates a bust of you that will permanently be displayed in a building like the United Center says it all. It's hard to put into words because it is such an honor. It's great to know that something like that will be around forever.

The people of Orissa had unmatched love and respect for Bijubabu. There is no way that you can wish away his legacy.

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

Death steals everything except our stories.

Michael Jackson will live forever through the thing that he put all of his life energy into: his music. I will do my part to keep the melody alive, to keep the energy forever changing form, but never ever dying!! Long live Michael Jackson.

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.

When I die, the world is going to talk about me. They will never forget me and I will never have any regrets. If nothing else, the world will know I was here. I think that everyone should make their mark wherever they are. They will talk about you way after you're gone. Make your mark. Live your life.