Quotes About Legacy

Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business. It could be the look in the eye of a child you raise or a simple garden you tend. Do something that will last and be beautiful.

Jackie Robinson stole home and he's safe."...Nobody could hurt him again. He wouldn't hear the name-calling. He would only hear the cheers and somehow I could fantasize my own little story about where he was and how he was doing and let him rest in peace.

In the Canadiens' dressing room, on a wall above the players' lockers, is a line from John McCrae's poem, "In Flanders Fields." It reads: To you from failing hands we throw the torch, be yours to hold it high.

As mysterious as it seems, our prayers have the power to live after us. Spanning years, sometimes centuries, even millennia. Reaching across time to take the broken pieces of a person's life and gently place them into what can only be described as a divine work.

Until I die again, perhaps. Until the next replay. Then it all vanishes." Jeff shook his head, his arm tightly around her shoulders. "Only the products of your work will disappear. The struggle, the devotion you put into your endeavors … That's where the value truly lies, and will remain: within you.

Hayat?n?n ürünleri yok olacak sadece. Mücadele, çabalar?na olan baÄŸl?l???n... Gerçek deÄŸer burada yat?yor ve her zaman kalacak: Senin içinde.

I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much.

It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I have left. Eventually the unread books on my shelves will have to be abandoned, or they will join me on the pyre. The book I'm about to purchase may be among them. We all buy books we won't live to read.

Vive, vivió, vivirá. Muere, murió, morirá.

a sadness in living beyond extinction,

Of all the titles that I've been privileged to have, the title of 'dad' has always been the best.

We build our own cultures not only on the achievements of those that have come before but on their ruins.

Education is one of the main ways that communities pass on their values and traditions from one generation to the next.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

Ei n-au înÈ›eles un lucru: c? un om e mai viu în momentul în care moare. ToÈ›i vars? lacrimi, i se iart? toate f?r?delegile, toÈ›i îl cinstesc.

Ne možeš imati dijete i ostati djevica....svaki put kada je Selma pokušala da ispri?a istinu o toj epizodi iz istorije svoje zemlje do?ekali bi je samo sažaljivi pogledi...i zbunjeni osmijesi...nisu joj vjerovali...mislili su da brani ?ast svoje porodice. Ogor?eno je shvatila da jedino pobjednik može nametnuti svoju istinu.

When a book ends, the good parts get folded up and carried around in somebody's pocket. The rest gets sold at a garage sale for a nickel.

When the French were here, they began cutting down the trees. Haiti's dictators finished the job, leaving the topsoil to run into the ocean. All that splendid mahogany furniture in Paris salons and this is the result: a bald brown island with a muddy coast.

TRAIN up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Prov. 22:6).

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

In another surprising statistic about the transfer of wealth from generation to generation, only 1.6 percent of Americans receive $100,000 or more in inheritance. Another 1.1 percent receives $50,000 to $100,000. The rest of the population — 97.3 percent — receives no inheritance whatsoever

The Rothschild brothers-Nathan, James, Amschel, Carl, and Salomon-comprised the world's largest private bank.