Quotes About Legacy

I am my father's daughter, and my Father is the King of Leaving

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others....

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and women of all the ages, accumulated under one roof.

I forewarn you, this will be a rather long talk. I am an old man. I do not know how much longer I will live, and so I want to say what I have to say, while I have the strength to say it. ...Having been warned, some of you will wish to get comfortable. Pleasant dreams.

Live today as if you were going to live forever, for you surely shall.

Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.

I will never get over being thankful to them; I hope that you never get over being thankful to them. I hope that we will always remember them....Let us read again and again, and read to our children or our children's children, the accounts of those who suffered so much.

All of us are the products of the lives that touched upon our own lives

Through centuries of time, men and women, so very, very many, have lived and died. Some may die in the conflict that lies ahead. To us, and we bear solemn testimony of this, death will not be the end. There is life beyond this as surely as there is life here. Through the great plan which became the very essence of the War in Heaven, men shall go on living.

Let the past serve the present, let foreign things serve China," said that famous servant of the people Mao Zedong.

For China, yesterday poisons today and robs tomorrow.

Finally, the generous giver is someone who, in a sense, lays the tracks for others to find eternal life.

You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.

You have a masterpiece inside you, too, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. And remember: If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.

they're blinded by the limited focus of their attitudes toward time and history. They only look as far as their own lifetime. No, they don't even look that far. They only look at how things are for their own generation.

Hamilton may truly be "the man who made modern America.

Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful.

Old men are like the wrecks of time, thrown by the waves of one century upon the shores of another.

Alas, Art is long, and Life short!

Frazz: My ancestors said, "There's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing." Caulfield: You told me it was no bad weather, just insufficient espresso. Frazz: That's what my descendants will say their ancestors said.

A book is a sign of the age-old effort to maintain what one generation hands on to another...

Old books are leather-bound ghosts.

A health to books!... Your goblets all refill; When all things mortal are decayed May books be with us still!