Quotes About Legacy

Just like my mom, Grandma had died the day she gave birth. It was like a curse in our family. "Because

We all become history at some point or another, right?

And none of Grandpa's stories were ever lies. I know that now. They were just true in a different way. He had

But nevertheless, what remains - very broadly diffused through the modern British consciousness - is a warmish afterglow generated by a sense that Britain's record in the last two hundred years is on the whole a source of legitimate pride. This in turn nourishes a sense that Britain deserves a special place in the pantheon of the world - that we are not just a small country at the European end of the Eurasian landmass.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

As I said, the good die young, and the motherfuckers go on forever, pardon my French.

He wanted to get away: this was like something out of Faulkner or Penn Warren, blasphemed southern ground, soaked in blood a generation old, white trash and black, white innocence and black, all commingled in a very small area on the same day.

David McCullough has said, "We are shaped by those we never met.

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

Not success. Not growth. Not happiness. The cradle of your love of life … is death.

Every generation needs courageous believers who will trust God at His Word and pick up the baton of intercession, continuing the powerful legacy of faithfully standing in the gap and seeking His heart in prayer.

la apatía y la cobardía de una generación pueden desperdiciar y borrar lo que generaciones anteriores consiguieron con sangre, sudor y lágrimas.

la eternidad es demasiado larga como para desperdiciar este breve tiempo aquí en la Tierra.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.

When a man sits buried in a book, it is not the man that you see and know that is reading: deep down in him are antecedent generations--soldiers, pirates, martyrs, fading back to cave men. As he reads, the 'universal' book is calling to one of them.

I think we go brain-dead when talking with kids. All the sudden I was saying things my mi and da had said to me two decades ago. The words must sit around dormant, generation to generation, waiting to infect our vocal cords when we get older.

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

David knew what it was to be a man. As he lay dying, he called his son Solomon to his bedside and gave him final instructions: "I am about to go the way of all the earth. So be strong and show yourself a man." These are the last recorded words of one of the greatest kings to ever live. Of all he might have said to his son with his final breath, he chose to instruct him to be a man. They are words we should never forget.