Quotes About Legacy

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

Not since Attila the Hun swept across Europe leaving 500 years of total blackness has there been a man like Lee Marvin.

A man of 97, unless he is a fool, has no message . 100 years

die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."   Late

He said gloomily, despairing, sadly: 'How hard, oh, how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived for it.

Um homem de bem, quando não pode mais honrar os compromissos que assumiu, manda em seu lugar o atestado de óbito.

Ele começou a reconhecer que, mais difícil do que viver, é saber encerrar harmoniosamente a vida, sem azedumes nem resmungos, em paz com o mundo que ficaria para trás

In 1960, Joy wrote of her experiences raising Elsa in the bestselling book Born Free which was adapted into an Academy award-winning film. In 1980 Joy was tragically murdered on her reserve, but her conservation work continues through the Elsemere Trust.

Besides, it's great to buy something you know you can use the rest of your life, then pass on to your grandkids, and that when those kids are old, it'll still be doing its job well. How many things are there like that left in life? Maybe good movies.

The legacy from my mother is eighteen things, and the last is the capacity to look at life fresh, to not give up. To tell the truth about our fuckups and our wounds. To let it hurt. To change, to let go, to start over - the willingness to keep starting over, for as long as we have and as long as it takes.

Although slavery has long been a part of human history, American chattel slavery represents a case of human trauma incomparable in scope, duration and consequence to any other incidence of human enslavement.

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.

She exists in me now, just as I will and already do within my grandchildren. No one ever truly dies. The desires of our hearts make a path. We create legacy with our thoughts and dreams.

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." —Jackie Robinson

We are here to prepare for not being here.

And if, with some effort, they could recall the affairs that had been consummated, the roads taken, the languages mastered, the queer meals eaten in foreign lands, of what lasting consequence was that? This had been the destination all the while. Having been a good householder, having run a tight ship, having fought the good fight, whatever, it mattered not at all.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

I am out listening for the words, for the breath of my ancestors

If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well.

A good home must be made, not bought.

Raising three human beings who will go out and change the world.