Quotes About Legacy

Michelangelo was aiming with his frescoes, we modestly suggest that if he had dared to give the giant artwork a title he might have called it "The Bridge.

expensive paint jobs in history. Michelangelo began at the top of the wall and slowly worked his way down for more than seven years, painting exclusively by himself, with only one or two assistants. He was trudging up and down ladders while he was in his sixties, an age at which most people in the sixteenth century were either retired or buried.

Thus it is that bodies shut in tombs often preserve their original shape until the outside air reaches them and reduces them to dust.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Life is too short to be little.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

The history of Heroes is the history of Youth.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose this battle.

If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worthy reading, Or do things worth the writing.

The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding), lies here, food for worms; but the work shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, revised and corrected by the Author.

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

One of the greatest captains of the age.

Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

there will be sleeping enough in the grave....

Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.