Quotes About Legacy

History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or dialectally - has a lot to do with whether we cut short or advance our evolution as human beings.

Since World War II, we have known that the old man—the consuming man, the purely technological man, the wholly materialistic man—must die. Our problem has been that no one better has come forward to take his place.

The Schuylers were one of the few families in those

whatever tongue we speak the old ghost asserts itself in dusky echoes

One of the things we do as poets, is to try to preserve experiences, people, places important to us, in an effort to save them from time's erasure.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

When asked his opinion of the French Revolution, Chinese Premier Zhou En-Lai in the 1950s famously remarked, "It's too early to tell.

I am a man who is come. I am a man who is here. I bring nothing but myself and will take away nothing but myself when I leave. But I will do my very best to leave something behind.

This is our country, and this is our past, and we are the present, and these young people are the future.

Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future." - Warmaster Horus

You're right, Mal, you and Erebus both. My father made me for immortality and the galaxy should know of me. Ten thousand years from now I want my name to be known all across the heavens." - Warmaster Horus

Grandfather Michael

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

Writing well is one of the most crucial tools of the modern person. It is a skill required by nearly every profession, and one that allows you to get your work done, help others, and leave behind a legacy of your thoughts and actions so you may be remembered long after you are gone.

Since the end is never told, We pay the teller off in gold, But he cannot be bought or sold.

If all you got to live for is what you left behind get yourself a powder charge and seal that silver mine.

Remember friends as you pass by, As you are now so once was I. As low as I you once must be, Prepare yourself and follow me.

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they will never sit.

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

You are what you leave behind.

Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh. And now, it is forever.