Quotes About Legacy

Mankind are always happy for having happiness. So if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years from now by the memory of it.

Thanks to generations of curious, daring, intrepid explorers of the past, we may know enough, soon enough, to chart safe passage for ourselves far into the future.

Death is the reward for living

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave-Dakota Indian proverb

Yet if salvation of the world lay solely in old men's caution, why would young people be born?

It's like parents choosing to raise their own standard of living rather than to provide for the future of their kids. You wouldn't consider that very admirable would you?

The Book of Latina Women celebrates stories of the spirit and the resiliency of Latinas whose contributions have shaped history. Though the term Latina is relatively new, the spirit that goes with it carries an important legacy. For centuries, Latina women have inspired us beyond words. Their actions have sparked great change, and their spirit has made its mark on our contemporary world.

Therefore, at some point or other of Sir Glamie's pedigree an Elfin lady must have yielded to a mortal lover, and immortality, like the pox, has run in the family ever since.

When a dog has slept in the same corner for so many years no one is likely to enquire into its pedigree.

During the last few years of her life Mrs. Willowes grew continually more skilled in evading responsibilities, and her death seemed but the final perfected expression of this skill. It was as if she had said, yawning a delicate cat's yawn, "I think I will go to my grave now," and had left the room.

Her grandmother's pistol passed down, like a recipe for strudel.

The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.

Jenghiz Khan and his lieutenants slaughtered more than 18,500,000 human beings.

The cities of Russia and Poland were burned, their inhabitants tortured and massacred, with the consequence that progress was retarded for centuries. Almost

Saint and Martyr rule from the tomb.

The great poet, in writing himself, writes his time.

Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swellAnd the profit and loss.

Someone said, "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know.

A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.

A life- whether seamstress of poet, farmer or king, is not measured by it's length, but by the worth of it's deeds and the power of it's dreams.

Success is not success without a successor.

You can live in this world and make all the money you could ever dream of and be as beautiful as you want and be as educated as you please and accomplish whatever you want to, but if you die without accomplishing your purpose, you are a failure, a reject, and a fool.

A father is an image of a young man's destiny, a living testimony of what time may bring to pass.

In a 2006 speech then-senator Barack Obama gave to a group of college students, he offered these sage words about success: "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.