Quotes About Legacy

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

Grandparents are both our past and our future. In some ways they are what has gone before, and in others they are what we will become.

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

You know, we have pieces of the people that have cared about us all through our lives, and they're all part of us know. And so we represent, each one of us represents, so many investments from others. No one of us is alone.

When I think of solitude, I think of an anecdote from With the Door Open: My Experience by the late Danish religious philosopher Johannes Anker Larsen: "The most comprehensive formula for human culture which I know was given by the old peasant who, on his death bed, obtained from his son this one promise: to sit every day for half an hour alone in the best room.

For at every stage of your civilizations there are numbers of you who put aside selfishness and dedicate their lives in service to something they see as being greater than themselves. I say you may prevail, I say not that you will. For in each of your generations there are men who choose to serve the gods of darkness.

Until the mid-1950s, universities such as Harvard and Yale often admitted students on the basis of family connections. By the mid-1960s, largely due to the rise of educational testing, more merit-based standards had taken hold, and students from a wider range of social backgrounds found themselves on campuses that had been off-limits to their parents.64

Who was I to dare to talk to him? In which of Europe's ghettos had my ancestor been huddled when Frederick von Hohenstaufen gave Anno von Hohenfels his bejewelled hand?

So I went through the whole list except the names beginning with H, and when I had finished I found that twenty-six boys out of the forty-six in my class had died for das 1000-jährige Reich.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

Actually he did not need to earn a penny. By 1913 his mother and his aunt had left him two fair-size legacies. He kept both secret. Nobody in the Männerheim suspected him of an income that could have easily paid for quarters at a comfortable hotel.

Frederic Morton

The man who writes a single line, And hears it often quoted, Will in his life time surely shine, And be hereafter noted.

When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart.

O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

Slaves dream of freedom, commoners dream of becoming kings, what do kings dream of?

Rascals, would you live forever?

We are the rich. We own America. We got it God knows how, but we intend to keep it.

There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.

What remains of people is what media can store and communicate.

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.