Quotes About Legacy

Ye who have passed Death's haggard hills; and ye Whom trees that knew your sires shall cease to know And still stand silent:--is it all a show,-- A wisp that laughs upon the wall?

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

Origins sure are powerful and sh*t. You can't shake them.

Nothing we do or say in this lifetime will matter as much as the way we loved each other.

Here's how much some people dislike living Jews: they murdered 6 million of them. This fact bears repeating, as it does not come up at all in Anne Frank's writing. Readers of her diary are aware that the author was murdered in a genocide, but this does not mean that her diary is a work about genocide. If it were, it is unlikely that it would have been anywhere near as universally embraced.

Eventually Honi asked God to kill him, because he realized he had become superfluous. Which in fact was the entire purpose of life, to live in such a way that one made oneself superfluous. And therein lay the root of the problem. There was no point in any of it, none at all, unless one had plans to leave.

No one is anything more than a cloud that vanishes, and the best anyone could hope for was not to be the last.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

CARPE DIEM, ORAZIO I, 11 Leuconoe, quando io e te si muoia non chiederlo agli Dei.

The older speak life and lessons to the younger, and the younger bring new energy and enthusiasm, pioneering a new way. Talk

However, the truth is that to foster the next generation, we must become selfless leaders who are not out to make a name or position for ourselves but rather willing to pass on our knowledge and understanding for the kingdom's sake. Like David, we must be ready to deny ourselves in order to protect those God has entrusted to us.

I had a dad you know.

when, for example, he met Martin Luther King, Jr., he was startled to discover a very different kind of Christianity. "I knew," he says, "I was in the presence of a holy person. Not just his good work but his very being was a source of great inspiration for me. And others, less well known, have made me feel that Lord Jesus is still here with us" (Nhat Hanh, 1995, pp. 5, 6). Through

The analogy was that those who followed Jesus paid a great price for their belief. Their families probably disowned them. Many even lost their lives for their faith. They likely would have been marked by such an event, and thus their memory was likely to be better.

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

A legacy is not about what you did while you were there it is what happens when you are gone

To wit, John Harrison served as the son, grandson, brother, and uncle of one Henry Harrison or another, while his mother, his sister, both his wives, his only daughter, and two of his three daughters-in-law all answered to the name Elizabeth.

John "Longitude" Harrison was born March 24, 1693, in the county of Yorkshire, the eldest of five children.

My dad was the manager at the 45 000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1 200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.

You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.

I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.

That is what grandchildren are for — so that the old may also dream, a promise of a future in return for the lost past.

He always said his reputation is all of himself a man can leave behind when he goes back to the elements. Honesty and honor, he said, courage and grace. Those four are what make a man. That's what he taught me, sire.