Quotes About Legacy

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

No, Captain Madsen, you don't regret having had a child simply because you lose it. Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed to live. Not its death.

Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed to live. Not its death

When old men met, they talked about the sea—

Não, capitão Madsen, não nos arrependemos de ter tido uma criança só porque a perdemos. Ter uma criança não é um negócio que se faz com a vida. Como eu disse, uma criança é um dom. E o que fica depois de uma criança desaparecer é a recordação dos anos que pôde viver. Não a sua morte.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

Carter G. Woodson

You would never thereby learn that Africans first domesticated the sheep, goat, and cow, developed the idea of trial by jury, produced the first stringed instruments, and gave the world its greatest boon in the discovery of iron. You would never know that prior to the Mohammedan invasion about 1000 A.D. these natives in the heart of Africa had developed powerful kingdoms which were later organized as the Songhay Empire on the order of that of the Romans and boasting of similar grandeur.

Furthermore, if, after three generations the Negro colleges have not produced men qualified to administer their affairs, such an admission is an eloquent argument that they have failed ingloriously and should be immediately closed.

Tarikh Es-Soudan.

We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life." -Peter of Blois (d. 1212).

Most people my age are dead.

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

Lawrence Kasdan has this to say about Star Wars: "Force Awakens, New Hope, Empire—these are movies about fulfilling what is inside you. That's a story that everybody can relate to. Even when you get to be my age, you're still trying to figure that out. It's amazing but it's true. What am I, what am I about, have I fulfilled my potential, and, if not, is there still time? That's what the Star Wars saga is about.

It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.

Yet I believe the Google system of the world will fail, indeed be swept away in our time (and I am seventy-eight!). It will fail because its every major premise will fail.

Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

and what is writ, is writ, Would it were worthier! but I am not now That which I have been

And thus they plod in sluggish misery, Rotting from sire to son, and age to age, Proud of their trampled nature, and so die, Bequeathing their hereditary rage To the new race of inborn slaves, who wage War for their chains, and rather than be free, Bleed gladiator-like, and still engage Within the same arena where they see Their fellows fall before, like leaves of the same tree.

the Bible "outlives, out lifts, outloves, outreaches, outranks, outruns all other books."4

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.