Quotes About Legacy

It was the refrigerator of a man who was worried about his health. It was also the refrigerator of a man from another generation.

A man lives for as long as we carry him inside us

How long is a man's life, finally? Is it a thousand days, or only one? One week, or a few centuries? How long does a man's death last? And what do we mean when we say, 'gone forever'?

But there are other stories waiting to be told, and they will be lost one day, too. Whatever the case, it's all beneath your feet, right now.

The wisdom of Solomon:a When wisdom comes to a son, joy comes to a father.

This is how Yuli, son of Alehaw, came to a place called Oldorando, where his descendants flourished in the better days that were to come.

It'd be kind of silly if we killed ourselves off after all this time. If we do, we're stupider than the cave people and I don't think we are. I think we're just exactly as stupid and that's pretty bright in the long run.

A man's immortality can be found in his children.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.

Immortality is not merely what happens after your mortal life is over. It is more important than that. Immortality is what happens when love conquers time-when a person's ability to love others and to act in pure love and goodness stretches beyond death to live forever in the heart of the human race.

Makwa, my bravest warrior." His words were earnest and measured. "The great spirits call. It is time for you to go to them, to be honored for your loyalty and bravery. Mishe Moneto has gathered all your great fathers and they all await you with a magnificent feast. Go to them with your chin held high. Take your rightful place.

Our honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.

And there the trail ended: with the quotation exposed as a half-remembered story told by a dead man who might or might not have seen it in a newspaper around 1925, and might or might not have recalled it correctly decades later.

I thought that I would never reach for it again without remembering the old granny in front of me now, standing almost on tiptoe, squinting as she strained to see the words in the Bible her son held aloft.

The Beatles were a force of nature, and their impact on music and popular culture can still be felt today. They were more than just a band -- they were a way of life.

In order to be remembered, you have to do something memorable.

The past is gained, secure, and on record.

What I have printed gives no knowledge of me--it evidences abilities of various kinds, if you will--and a dramatic sympathy with certain modifications of passion ... But I never have begun, even, what I hope I was born to begin and end--'R.B. a poem'.

It is better that we make our own history than be governed by the dead--William O. Douglas

What will our descendants think when they come upon Chalillo? When they scrape away the deep layer of dirt covering in stepping-stone facade, what will they make of the dogleg desig, the Chinese gauges, the long-stopped turbines? What will they make of the skeletons and fossils long gone? Will they connect the two?

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.