Quotes About Legacy

We do not write the story of childhood with a dry-erase board, we write with a permanent Sharpie.

Don't assume that what happens in our future invalidates what happened in our past.

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

Our society routinely steals from the future.

Graciousness in serving and being served marks the lives of leaders who have made the largest impact on my life.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

He visited Robert Schumann's grave to lay a wreath and he became so indebted by the purchase of a piano that he could not afford the journey home to his mother and sister at Christmas. Observing that his money always ran out fast, 'probably because it was so round', he sent in his place a volume of eight of his musical compositions...

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

When the governor ordered him to travel around the district courts to administer justice and he arrived at Gades, he noticed the statue of Alexander the Great at the temple of Hercules and groaned as though disgusted with his own idleness—he had done nothing worth remembering at an age when Alexander had already conquered the world. He

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.

The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists.

Afghanistan is the Graveyard of Empires. Afghanistan is a swamp, the more you move, the more you bog down.

pink Kimilsungias (hybrid flowers bred to honor the Great Leader; the ones named after his son are called Kimjongilias)

History is His story. You haven't heard my story.

The battle is important. Don't tell my death

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

I don't want to die as long as I can work the minute I can not, I want to go.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

I also learned that my heroes had heroes of their own. They had stood on the shoulders of those who came before them, learned from them, were inspired, took what that learned and wave it into their own originality, and made something brand new for their own times. Everything was connected. Everything stepped up forward in though and genius.

Upon all the new settlements the Spaniards make, the first thing they do is build a church," wrote the British captain Thomas Walduck in 1708. "The first thing the Dutch do upon a new colony is to build them a fort, but the first thing the English do, be it in the most remote part of the world, or amongst the most barbarous Indians, is to set up a tavern or drinking house.

The people should never rise, without doing something to be remembered—something notable and striking.

Taylor Barnum. After he died, it was said that he was more alive than anyone still living.

I'd love to be an old actress and still be in a soap.