Quotes About Legacy

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.

Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

I look back on my life like a good day's work; it is done and I am satisfied with it.

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.

We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.

The past is our very being.

We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.

Patterns of the past echo in the present and resound through the future.

Do not manage as if you had ten thousand years before you. Look you, death stands at your elbow; make the most of your minute, and be good for something while it is in your power.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Don't let it be forgot, That once there was a spot -For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

A cup to the dead already, - Hurrah for the next that dies.

Here is a toast that I want to give To a fellow I'll never know; To the fellow who's going to take my place When it's time for me to go.