Quotes About Legacy

But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past?

Happy but isn't the human factor what connexus a deeply to our past will future generations care as much for chronologies and casualty statistics as they would for the personal accounts of individuals not so different from themselves.

J'ignore si les grandes époques font les grands hommes, mais je sais qu'elles les tuent.

We can't just mourn the deaths, we also have to celebrate the lives. We need Anne Frank's diary, but we also need her smile on the cover.

Nice to be able to say, "Hey, don't look at me, it's not my fault." Well, it is. It is my fault, and the fault of everyone of my generation.

and, let us not forget, the culmination of nearly five thousand years of continuous Chinese history.

the best way to honor Chairman Mao's memory was to see his face on as many hundred yuan notes as possible.

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

We were taught since birth to bear the burden of our grandfathers' shame. We were taught that, even if we wore a uniform, that our first sworn duty was to our conscience, no matter what the consequences

They used to call it the 'Great War'. But I'll be damned if I could tell you what was so 'great' about it. They also called it 'the war to end all wars'…'cause they figured it was so big and awful that the world'd just have to come to its senses and make damn sure we never fought another one ever again. That woulda been a helluva nice story. But the truth's got an ugly way of killin' nice stories.

know I come off as a little too optimistic, because I'm sure that as soon as things really get back to "normal," once our kids or grandkids grow up in a peaceful and comfortable world, they'll probably go right back to being as selfish and narrow-minded and generally shitty to one another as we were.

My work?" she said. "You can see for yourself, patching up fragments. That is supposed to have been a vase. From Crete. I stick the past together.

May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.

Here's a salute to a long good life: goodness that outlives the grave. love that outlasts the final breath. May you live your life in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.

Here's a salute to a long life: goodness that outlives the grave, love that outlasts the final breath. May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.

Beneath the epidermis of today's deeds are the unresolved actions of years past.

Dads, when you lead by example, you are sowing eternal seeds. —Max

Isaiah 57:1–2: "The good men perish; the godly die before their time, and no one seems to care or wonder why. No one seems to realize that God is taking them away from evil days ahead. For the godly who die shall rest in peace" (TLB).

Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone. Pick up the stone of the past.

Your goal is not to live long, it's to live.

But as time goes on we not only remember specific things in relation to the people we have loved; their lives get built into our lives and finally the transference is complete. We are what we are because of them.

I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seeds every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.

Pero ahora sabía, de un modo en que antes no lo había sabido, que lo que había heredado era vivificante y reparador para mi vida y lo sería hasta el final de mis días o incluso más allá. ... llegué a la conclusión de que si uno es capaz de profundizar lo suficiente, seguro que es capaz de atravesar la roca.

We are missing Michael. But we do know we had him, and we are the world.