Quotes About Legacy

Life is full of different risks. And I think that, when you think about the things that you will regret when you're 80, they're almost always the things that you did not do. They're acts of omission.

We have been told, O Krishna, that people whose family traditions are destroyed necessarily dwell in hell for a long time.

One day GOOGLE will say my name...

She saw that her native New World forgetfulness would be forever in conflict with Old World blood-memory.

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

He that troubleth his own household shall inherit the wind ..... etc.

When a man walks in integrity and justice, happy are his children after him.

For nearly all that is good in our American civilization we are indebted to the Old World; the errors and mischiefs are of our own creation.

Oysa böbürlenmek neye yarar? Ölümün e?itleyicili?ini unutmaya, olsa olsa.

I was digging with a fork out of the kitchen drawer sewing tictacs , I didn't know what the hell I was doing. After a bit I got bored and just started burying cheap spoons to baffle the archaeologists of the future.

we are partisan in favor of our own children and grandchildren, who we hope can live in a world that doesn't poison them when they drink the water, breathe the air, or make a living.

It is, I concluded, a side effect of this kind of food, one that's handed down from one generation to another, often in conditions of adversity, that you end up thinking of the dead, that the very stuff that sustains you tastes somehow of mortality. (198)

I stood in the doorway of one room, lost in a meditation of the house's recurring habits. People had made love here, sweated through pregnancy, gave birth, looked after children, became ill, died, the fire always burning in the kitchen. In this room, the next generation had done the same, the fire still burning. And the next generation, for thousand years.

Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.

That's the permanent mission our Founding Fathers left us—moving toward the "more perfect union.

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate.

A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.

It is a well known fact that most artists produce their best work early in their career. They may refine what they do but you usually get the measure of what they are about on their first outing.

The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.