Quotes About Legacy

Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow.

Many a family tree needs trimming

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue.

These trees and these old people have one thing in common - they're both going in the ground soon!

Plant a memory, plant a tree, do it today for tomorrow.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.