Quotes About Legacy

There are only three things that America will be remembered for 2000 years from now when they study this civilization: The Constitution, Jazz music, and Baseball. These are the 3 most beautiful things this culture's ever created.

The wealth we have is not ours forever. It is in our custody while we have breath and hands to do the Lord's work. And we must honor God by honoring our custodial responsibilities.

Art endures long after the tyrants who pay for it are dust. He

Yes, they were part of him. He hoped he was a little part of them--if only a memory, a fraction of their consciousness. How the Sweeney's of the world needed them. He blinked fiercely, stemming his tears. I am not much of a man, but at least I have known them.

The best computer programmers never write a new program when they can use an old one for a new job.

Lynet scowled. "I'm just so tired of young knights wearing their father's armor and dreaming romantic dreams riding up to their death.

There is a spirit out there that lifts the heart and renews one's determination to be better, to try harder, to strive to be more faithful. That is the legacy those wonderful Saints have handed to us.

Who are you?" [Bryce] asked in a hoarse whisper "Nathaniel Gorham." The man waited, expectantly, then his face fell. "You don't recognize it?" Bryce could do no more than shake his head. "Figures. If I'd said George Washington or Benjamin Franklin then you would have perked up. But Nathaniel Gorham? No... My name's right there next to theirs... At the bottom of the Constitution. Big as life, just like Ben's and General Washington's.

Well, there are all of the names you would recognize - Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Tom Paine, Paul Revere. There are over three hundred of us, actually. I wish all were as well known to this generation as the others. Every one played a part - along with thousands of others whose names are no in any history books.

We gave the best blood of our generation to win liberty for ourselves and our posterity. Would you throw it away so cheaply? And with the very instrument we gave you to protect it?

Thirty-four companies—many of them still household names today, like Krupp, AEG Telefunken, Siemens, Bayer, and IG Farben—made fortunes from the tortured labor of Jews, Russians, Poles, some Allied prisoners of war, and German prisoners of conscience.

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln.

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

If our forefathers make the world awry, must our children be the ones to pay to right it?

I asked once, and the library assistant told me there were more than a hundred thousand books there, and more than sixty million pages of documents. It's a good number, I think: ten pages for every person who died. A kind of monument in paper for people who have no gravestones.

the surfeit of loss in my life has convinced me it will be easier to be grieved for than to grieve." Bethia as an old woman about to die p 257

So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand.

I don't rightly know who was my great-grandfather, much less his father. How come you know that about a horse?

What is human is immortal!

A good man never dies.

Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it!