Quotes About Legacy

He taught people with his best way. He showed his beauty. He was all good so peace be on him and his family.

And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

The Muslims have got Islam as a legacy, hence they fail to recognize its value

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

Wisdom married to immortal verse.

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

History will be erased in the universal purgatory.

Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end they're all that remain of us.

Are we being good ancestors?

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