Quotes About Legacy

Remember. Never forget.

And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when you're old enough, this story that lives with me, will live with you as well. When a story is told, it is not forgotten. It becomes something else, a memory of who we were; the hope of what we can become." ? Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

The old African proverb says, 'The ax forgets; the tree remembers.' I saw how horrifically it injured us to identify with our oppressors. If we were to keep our souls whole, we couldn't afford to forget. We had to remember.

In so many ways, you can't choose what you give to your daughter, you just give her what you have.

Even a dog can make a bunch of puppies, but a real man raises his kids.

The tree is untouched by whatever worries we humans fret over. I think about how it was here before I was born and it will be here after we're all gone. Maybe this should make me sad, but it doesn't.

Another favorite of hers was talking about what dogs were capable of. As in, "Even a dog can make a bunch of puppies, but a real man raises his kids." She made dozens of those observations. She aimed them at me constantly and I did my best to be the real man she had in mind. But she never told me anything about saying good-bye, because as far as she was concerned, real men didn't have any need for farewells because real men stay.

As we made our way to the grave, I marveled at how a town so small had accumulated so many dead.

I could see from the little turn-up at the corner of her eyes that she was so proud that she could have been her own mother,

Somewhere it is written that your sins fall on your parents, mostly on your mother,

Our daughter needs to know things, she needs to know how fortunate she is. When I was her age . . .' My mother cut him off. 'Stop it, Franklin. This is how progress works. You have it better than your daddy and I have it better than mine.

The fact that they came to our land, I know not why, does that mean we should poison our present and our future? Sooner or later they will leave our country, just as many people throughout history left many countries. The railways, ships, hospitals, factories and schools will be ours and we'll speak their language without either a sense of guilt or a sense of gratitude. Once again we shall be as we were - ordinary people - and if we are lies we shall be lies of our own making.

Non omnis moriar [No moriré del todo]».

Las guerras originan guerras, como las cigarras crían cigarras y siempre habrá hombres ambiciosos.

I loved you and reverenced you, for teachers are the noblest of men and labor for little and only from the fullness of their unselfish souls. In your name, and in my memory of you, I will do the best I can, and remember you always.

The last suit we wear doesn't need any pockets.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

When the legends die, the dreams end there is no more greatness.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

I'm not sure if I'm ready to have children. I asked a friend of mine who has children, "Suppose I do have kids. What if when they grow up they blame me for everything that's wrong with their lives?" She laughed and said "What do you mean if?

You, I hope, are one of those explorers. You, I hope, found these sheets of copper and deciphered the words engraved on their surfaces. And whether or not your brain is impelled by the air that once impelled mine, through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.

Verba volant, scripta manent. In Tiv you would say, 'Spoken words fly away, written words remain.