Quotes About Legacy

True, the work of our lifetime has been to comprehend and consolidate the gains of our forebears. But our labor will open the doors of the future. Our children and their children will gain because we have not lost heart, for faith and courage are the greatest gift that we can give to our descendants

Nearly every president had wanted a second term, despite the fact that history clearly taught the last four years would be nothing like the first. Either the president became overly aggressive, knowing he had nothing to lose, which alienated both supporters and detractors. Or he became cautious, placid, and docile, not wanting to do anything that might affect his legacy.

Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

Something about history stirred him. He liked following in its footsteps.

Aren't you the president? Don't they all work for you?" "I'm a president with not much more than a year left in office. They don't really care what I think or do anymore. They're more interested in the next person who'll be sitting in this chair.

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STAND-ALONE NOVELS The Columbus Affair The Third Secret The Romanov Prophecy The Amber Room CASSIOPEIA VITT NOVELLAS (WITH M. J. ROSE) The Museum of Mysteries The Lake of Learning The House of Long Ago

Ad Designandum Hastam. The Point of the Spear. For centuries that

A crossed Maltese stays cross. – Kastor Cardinal Gallo

What a difference from words on a page, or images on a video screen. Surrounding him was one of the oldest fortresses in England, where men had died defending the walls, and something was happening.

No one cares about some ex-vice-president or president

The first George Bush. And

Not a single person is born in the world who has not a certain capacity which will make him proud, who is not pregnant with something to produce, to give birth to something new and beautiful, to make the existence richer. There is not a single person who has come into the world empty. Osho

The final test of a leader is the feeling you have when you leave their presence

We make families of our own, Travis whispered in my arms on the last night we spent together. It starts with you and me and then it spreads. And whatever happens, there'll always be a part of me that's part of you. No matter what.

Folks, I don't trust children. They're here to replace us.

Is it a good idea to pass along a family business to the next generation? (Sure, if your goal is to kill off the business—for the data show it's generally better to bring in an outside manager.

I hope when my kids have kids, there are still books around, and I don't really care if mine are around, but I hope there are books around because I love the idea of that. I love doing this. I love doing a podcast, but to me, a book is a thing that has no equal.

Parent in a retirement home is more likely to be visited by his grown children if they are expecting a sizable inheritance. But wait, you say: maybe the offspring of wealthy families are simply more caring toward their elderly parents?

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. —Pope John XXIII

It's a stark thought that when we die most of us will leave behind uneaten biscuits, unused coffee, half toilet rolls, half cartons of milk in the fridge to go sour; that everyday functional things will outlive us and prove that we weren't ready to go; that we weren't smart or knowing or heroic; that we were just animals whose animal bodies stopped working without any sort of schedule or any consent from us.

There's no way to really preserve a person when they've gone and that's because whatever you write down it's not the truth, it's just a story. Stories are all we're ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles

There's nothing about the times when she wasn't funny or sexy, or when she talked too much or about her pissing or shitting. There's no way to really preserve a person when they're gone and that's because whatever you write down it's not the truth, it's just a story.

As has been said about science, sometimes society advances funeral by funeral.47