Quotes About Legacy

but just let me tell you what Kadie did the other day …" Death Bird waited with ill-concealed impatience until Rap's tale was complete. Without even a smile at the punchline, he launched into a dull and pointless account of how his oldest son, Blood Beak, had killed his first bear.

No reason. Because it's always been done that way. That's the standard explanation for anything.

Deep down, our single greatest fear is to live a life of insignificance, to come to the end of our life and feel like we never really did anything that mattered. That is our greatest fear.

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

And I always say that to the children: "You are the greatest thing I ever did in my life!

Thanks for teaching us to talk. Thanks for teaching us to be of the world and in the world and to make our way. Thanks for teaching us to be alive! And thanks for staying inside of us.

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves Wondering if we had spent our living days well I can't believe that we would lie in our graves Dreaming of things that we might have been

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children" (Prov. 13:22 NKJV). I

If you're not intentional about growing your kids' characters and ability to handle money, you can work your whole life to build wealth only to have it end up ruining them.

You've left things better than you found them, and that's pretty much all that anybody can hope for.

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Remembering is the only way to defeat the death.

If Adam stands before us as the flawed and fallen man, Joseph stands before us as the perfect father.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

I will never forget that the passing down of memories is the strongest link in the gossamer bridge that binds up as people.

The Democrats' website is accurate when it says that the Democratic efforts for civil rights "began" with Truman in 1946, for there certainly is much about civil rights that they would rather not talk about before that time.

Oglethorpe University,

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

I'll be seventy years old soon. Well, Nahum, if you asked me whether I shall die and be buried in a Jewish State I would tell you Yes; in ten years, fifteen years, I believe there will still be a Jewish State. But ask me whether my son Amos, who will be fifty at the end of this year, has a chance of dying and being buried in a Jewish State, and I would answer: fifty-fifty.

Selling such a large stake flew in the face of everything she knew about her father. He loved content.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

When my daughers, Simone and Emily look at me 25 or 30 years from now and say 'what were you doing, when global warming was happening? And when you guys knew what was coming down the road?' I want to be able to say, 'guys, I was doing everything I knew how to do.

Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.