Quotes About Legacy

Isn't that wonderful? When we drove through several of the places we lived - Grand Rapids, Washington - they all had those placards. That they stood by the street and had in their hands placards that said 'Gerald Our Ford'. That meant so much to us as we were driving into Washington.

Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.

Tess had thought her grandmother, somewhat poetically, as having come unbuttoned from time.

Tess had been unaware of leaving anything behind, but to hear Jacomo tell it, he'd played a long, slow game of connect-the-dots, and each dot had been a kindness, farm chores, laughter, a story told. She'd passed through the world, and the world had remembered.

Frightening, isn't it? That something I decide today impacts future generations. Beyond my own flesh and blood.

Death required me to pay attention to my life, to what I believe. A woman never knows when her life will be required of her.

death, she still was the most

In fifty years, no one will remember anything but your good works, the strength of your reign, and your love for your wife.

The Santa Barbara Plaza, also known as Marlton Square, played a vital role in the Black community. Thriving in the 1940s and 1950s, businesses in this twenty-two-acre shopping center met the needs of thousands of consumers across South Los Angeles. From the Broadway and May Company department stores to Woolworth's and J.J. Newberry's, the plaza has transformed from a vibrant shopping hub to a now nearly abandoned plot of land. Last

These are the hands of Rachel Joy Scott and one day, will touch millions of people's hearts.

é una strana accozzaglia di cose, vero? Ciò che resta di una vita.

Diez siglos son demasiados para un solo hombre y apenas un suspiro para la piedra.

I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.

Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us better to accept, that we ourselves may come to be accepted by such future ages as may pursue the study of us.

A child who learns that the past has created the present and that the present will shape the future will be willing to explore other times beyond his own limited existence.

Socrates was the best teacher and they killed him!

What you achieve, endures throughout time

Daniel Patrick Moynihan once quipped "If you want to build a great city, create a great university and wait 200 years."11

At the end of all these years, it doesn't matter to me who thinks of me as what. What matters is whether I have done what I could and whether I had done something I shouldn't have.

Are we, perhaps, here just for saying: House.Bridge, Fountain, Gate, Jug, Fruit tree, Window,—possibly: Pillar, Tower?

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

History will judge the war against Iraq not by the brilliance of its military execution, but by the effectiveness of the post-hostilities activities.

But I am glad to be able to leave this record of the doings more than sixty years (or two generations) ago of an amazing set of individuals. They were not perfect; they were unable to prevent the great tragedies associated with Partition; but they made a mark on the world; and they left for us a house of which we can be proud, and where we can grow, if we want, in liberty, justice and order.