Quotes About Legacy

happy is the nation without a history

That's the one immortal thing about a mortal, Leucò. The memory he carries with him, the memory he leaves behind him. That is what names and words are. When they remember even men smile. A smile of resignation.

Pensai a quanti luoghi ci sono nel mondo che appartengono così a qualcuno, che qualcuno ha nel sangue e nessun altro li sa.

When you commit yourself to the bodhisattva path, the path of helping others, you feel as if you have done it before and you have been doing it all along. It is like living up to your inheritance, or taking over your parents' business. You feel that there is something quite natural and right about it.

When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, "Wow, that was an adventure", not, "Wow, I sure felt safe." - Tom Preston-Werner

Sir Isaac Newton said, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Smart guys like Isaac know that there is much to be learned from those who came before us. Be like Isaac.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead the living have no right to forget.

everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don't know the past, you can't understand the present and plan properly for the future.

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

Kenang, kenanglah kami yang tinggal tulang-tulang diliputi debu. Beribu kami terbaring antara Karawang-Bekasi.

Americans generally think of Pol Pot as some kind of unique, self-generated monster and his "killing fields" as an inexplicable atavism totally divorced from civilization. But without the United States government's Vietnam-era savagery, he could never have come to power in a culture like Cambodia's

Amar es, sin duda, la mejor manera de vivir, es guardar la luna llena en el estanque del jardín de tu corazón e ir por la vida dejando huellas de luz.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

What is the use of having many sons if they cause grief and vexation?

historians have long debated which people, decisions, and actions really destroyed slavery.

That Fan did not see any of this is not so ironic, for all along her journey we've observed more of her than she'll ever know. She moves on, she pushes forward, this her guileless calling, and we have to remind ourselves that it's perhaps more laudable simply to keep heading out into the world than always tilting to leave one's mark on it.

The cost of war is a lifelong legacy borne by children.

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

What we leave behind, Lord, surely needs to be of spiritual value, for my oh my, how quickly the rest of it can vanish." Katie

Someday all the children of the world will learn the truth about their noble inheritance. When that happens, a miracle will unfold on the kingdom of Earth.

the twelve royal gifts of birth belong to every child, born anywhere, at anytime" -

You have built here what you, or anyone else, might have built anywhere; to do so you have destroyed what was unique in the world.

The history of our grandparents is remembered not with rose petals but in the laughter and tears of their children and their children's children. It is into us that the lives of grandparents have gone. It is in us that their history becomes a future.

A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.