Quotes About Legacy

One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

And he (King David) died in a good old age, full of days, riches and honour.

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

On the day of his death, in his eightieth year, Elliot, 'the Apostle of the Indians,' was found teaching an Indian child at his bedside. 'Why not to rest from your labours now?' asked a friend. 'Because,' replied the venerable man, 'I have prayed God to render me useful in my sphere, and he has heard my prayers; for now that I can no longer preach, he leaves me strength enough to teach this poor child the alphabet.'

Every man who has lived his life to the full should, by the time his senior years are reached, have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.

If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement, or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

People who leave Washington D.C. do so by way of the box - ballot or coffin.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.

Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.

The best work, and of greatest merit for the public, has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.

Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die.

Biography is the only true history.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

A book is the only immortality.

The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.