Quotes About Legacy

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

May all future lairds of Clan MacLarin live out their days knowing they are marked to love, but not to live. Until a laird of the MacLarin line lives to see his firstborn draw breath, this curse shall never be broken.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Immortality goes through dead before all.

However much we would adore the past it will forever die in the future with us.

Heroes are the saints of every nation.

A avut noroc, a avut doi baieti, dar in cele din urma nu el a avut cel mai mare noroc, ci fiicele sale. Ele au avut norocul imens de a nu se fi nascut!

A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground.

Oh, brothers and sisters, families can be forever! Do not let the lures [or the irritants] of the moment draw you away from them! Divinity, eternity, and family--they go together, hand in hand, and so must we!

Let us remember, too, that greatness is not always a matter of the scale of one's life, but of the quality of one's life. True greatness is not always tied to the scope of our tasks, but to the quality of how we carry out our tasks whatever they are. In that attitude, let us give our time, ourselves, and our talents to the things that really matter now, things which will still matter a thousand years from now.

If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions.

There may be some who would disregard [the family] and ignore the important things, yet we feel that almost everyone who stops to think of this and weigh it will conclude that when the home is destroyed, the nation goes to pieces. There can be no question about this, and all historians or those who have followed a historical line of thought have come to that same conclusion

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

On his gravestone): "I told you I was ill".

My father was my greatest inspiration. He was a lunatic.

The youngest member of this ageing community was ex-variety artiste, Patrick L. Balls. Fifty-nine now, he spent out his remaining years pulling a rope lift and bottling fruit. He had once whistled Ave Maria for Queen Victoria. She wasn't present at the time, but nevertheless that's who he was whistling it for.

India of the ages is not dead nor has She spoken her last creative word; She lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.