Quotes About Legacy

Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty.

I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.

Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity. ~

The furniture came into the house when Mamaw and Granddad Bromont were alive, had been in use since Mom was a child, and the lumpy stuffing and worn fabric yet held the scent of Granddad's pipe tobacco and ten thousand dusty days.

James Agee and Flannery O'Connor have impacted on me hardest

Age eventually catches up and forces a person to reckon with what is important in life and what counts as achievement.

Cider House Rules

I don't resemble my mom at all. Mom made beauty seem like a magic trick I'd never learn. I think there was a part of me that was trying, in those moments, to know her deeply, deep enough so that I could one day bring to light any small part of me that was hers. —

A lot of people who had terrible childhoods have kids to prove that they can do a better job, or to fix some cosmic rift by being the parents they needed to their own children.

As my father once quipped, the early history of this country is the story of James Madison talking to himself.

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

Those who came before us, with their family names and genetic legacies, with their physical peculiarities, whether it be albino skin or brown eyes—none of this mattered. Family was who we loved and who we protected. Family was the tribe we created here and now.

îÈ™i irosise tinereÈ›ea în o sut? de ani de dezm?? È™i relaÈ›ii nepotrivite, care o afectaser? atât pe ea, cât È™i averea lor.

Inheritance is a trickster. One generation may hide its genetic treasures, while the next will put them fully on display.

A sve što nadživi smrt jeste jedna mala ništavna pobeda nad ve?noš?u ništavila - dokaz ljudske veli?ine i Jahvine milosti. Non omnis moriar.

Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants.

Children are a poor man's wealth.

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them.

Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

But when thou shalt be in the sweet world, I pray thee bring me to men's memory.