Quotes About Legacy

You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.

We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future.

Whereas you do man-work. Build something and it's there for hundreds of years. I cook the food, do the dishes, hang out the sheets, pay gas bills, electricity bills and it all has to be done again the next time. As Virginia Woolf says, "Nothing remains of it.

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Tu sais, quand j'étais jeune, les gens avaient peur de la guerre atomique. C'était une peur formidable. Mourir à cent ans dans le brasier d'un gigantesque champignon nucléaire, mourir avec la planète... Ça avait tout de même de la gueule. Au lieu de quoi, je vais mourir comme une vieille pomme de terre pourrie. Et tout le monde s'en foutra.

Cred c? dup? moarte nu mai e nimic. Absolut nimic. Cred c? ajungi nemuritor f?cînd copii, care ei înÅŸiÅŸi vor aduce pe lume alÅ£i copii ÅŸi aÅŸa mai departe... Ei transmit în timp mica noastr? tor??." Surs?: individ chestionat la întîmplare pe strad?.

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate

I remember stony landscapes in which I sensed the mysterious imprint left by eyes that had looked on them for centuries upon centuries before me

Winsome likes the fact that Rachel is curious enough to know who her grandmother was before she was a mother, when she was a person in her own right, as she described it except she never has been, first she was a daughter, then a wife and mother, and now also a grandmother and great-grandmother.

I wish you were around to be her grandma, to tell her what it was like for you growing up, and stories about me from when I was too young to remember

we are all part a continuum, repeat after me, the future is in the past and the past is in the present

we are all part of a continuum, repeat after me, the future is in the past and the past is in the present

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

You can't expect a child not to become a product of his environment. If you're a drinker, you'll raise a drunk. If you're a single mother, traipsing men in and out of your bedroom in front of your girl child - mark my words, in time she'll claim a corner and charge money for what you gave away for free. Kings and queens raise princes and princesses. That's just the way it is.

If the apple of the next generation could fall farther from the tree, and get less shade from its parent, then the new tree might grow taller and healthier.

We don't want to see our kids and grandchildren be the first generation in the modern history of America to have a lower standard of living than their parents.

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

Of those cities will remain what passed through them, the wind!

Who built the seven towers of Thebes? The books are filled with the names of kings. Was it kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone?... In the evening when the Chinese wall was finished Where did the masons go?...

Pada malam ketika Tembok Tiongkok jadi, ke manakah para tukang batu pergi?

Every page a victory. Who cooked the feast for the victors? Every ten years a great man. Who paid the bill?

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Humans are queer. A man, living and well, is ignored or criticized. Dying or dead, he is noticed and praised. Death sheds a temporary glamour over the poorest soul. It is as though in dying, he has accomplished something which life never gave him.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.