Quotes About Legacy

It is so odd to think of myself as an uncle. I should have laughed at twenty if one had told me that forty would find me wifeless and childless. But so it is, and I shall go and play "Uncle John" at Christmas to the children of wiser and happier folk...

He that has no children brings them up well.

Children are one third of our population and all of our future.

What all of us know put together don't mean anything. Nothing don't mean anything. We are here for a spell and pass on. Anyone who thinks that civilization has advanced is an egotist.

The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism.

Ruth Graves Wakefield, inventor of the chocolate chip cookie — and the greatest hero in American history!

When some men die it is as if you had lost your pen-knife, and were subject to perpetual inconvenience until you could get another. Other men's going is like the vanishing of a great mountain from the landscape, and the outlook of life is changed forever.

Death is never a clean break — some stardust always remains.

No one ever really dies as long as they took the time to leave us with fond memories.

Death has its own treasure map with different riches than Life.

If it weren't for death, life would be unbearable.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to do is to know when to die. Prolonged life has ruined more men than it ever made.

A headstone is just a bookmark in our unfinished lives.

With several of them the game of life is ended and they have gone to bed under the willows. Their lips have taken the sacrament of the dust.

Death: the longest of our long-term goals.

Our heart dies with us But our soul lives on Born into weightless spirit Becoming colors of the dawn

I rocked her in the cradle, And laid her in the tomb.

People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.

The words that the father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world; but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.

Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved.

Old card players never die, they just shuffle away.

A father lives after death in his son.

It may be said that every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

The spirits of the dead hallow a house, for me.