Quotes About Legacy

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

What its children become, that will the community become.

What we frankly give, forever is our own.

A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

Every man is the son of his own works.

One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.

With him for a sire, and her for a dam What should I be, but just what I am?

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.

A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.

It runs in the blood like wooden legs.

Noble fathers have noble children.

He's a chip o' th' old block.

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among mankind.

Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times.