Quotes About Legacy

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.

A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

It is the doom of men that they forget.

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

I know what a good man is because I saw it in my father.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.

Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.