Quotes About Legacy

Do you honestly think that where you're buried has any bearing on where your spirit lives?

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

To a Scot, the past clings like sand to wet feet, and is carried about as a burden. The many ghosts are always a part of them, inescapable.

To a Scot, the past clings like sand to wet feet

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

The dance goes on forever. So shall I. So shall we.

Yesterday, today and tomorrow, my actions matter.

I've heard it said your entire life flashes before your eyes as you die. Those words comfort those who have loved and been loved but torment those who have failed and been failed.

Today you live, tomorrow you die. Make what you do in the meantime matter. -Troika

I've been told history is written by survivors, but I know that isn't always true. My name is Tenley Lockwood and very soon, I'll be dead. This is my story—but my end is only the beginning.

Firstlife matters," I repeat. "Hear, hear," Sloan calls. "I'm looking forward to wrinkled skin, gray hairs and most especially the use of diapers.

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." —CHARLES DICKENS, A TALE OF TWO CITIES

Déjame primero despedirme, —dijo él. Muriendo por dentro, se levantó y se inclinó sobre Julia, susurrándole en el oído—. Recuérdame con cariño, dulce dragón, ya que yo nunca te olvidaré. Vive tus sueños. Ama a otro. Ten niños y sé feliz.

I wasn't an ever-knowing adult; I was just expected to act like one. And, yeah. a real nice family tree I had. Murder and mayhem on every gnarled branch. Hardly seemed fair.

Are we playing to win and to establish the technical supremacy we need to keep up with what the business needs, or do we just keep limping along, shackled to things built decades ago, and tell our business leadership to throw in the towel and stop having good ideas?

Bash is the disease you die with, but don't die of.

In one case, we even found a ticket that Wes put in over ten years ago as a junior engineer, referring to some task for a machine that has been long since decommissioned.

Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain.

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Then what is the purpose of the Library?" Vale asked. "To save books," Irene said firmly.