Quotes About Legacy

don't pretend to understand all of what happened. But I do know this—this right here is just prelude. Dress rehearsal. The intro. One of these days each one of us is going to get called up and given the chance to join our voices in a song we've never heard, yet one we've known our whole lives. "My dad

That old man's guitar had lost its voice. It was played out. So was he. But while his mind might have forgotten more music than most would ever know, his fingers had not. Where most folks saw an itinerant drunk, I tasted the residue of musical genius. At one time, this guy had been somebody.

Said Dad was a tent peg for a lot of people, but she was his.

Anytime you start singing Johnny Cash, you're walking on hallowed ground.

But good hymns? They live past the people who wrote them. Hymns never die.

Taking the trouble out of life strips people of major ways in which human beings look back on their lives and say, "I made a difference.

La bella Antigüedad fue siempre venerable; pero no creo en absoluto que ella sea admirable. Veo a los antiguos, sin doblar las rodillas; son grandes, es cierto, pero hombres como nosotros.

Lucille Biggers Langford and Florence Mabry Whiteside. As the

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble.

How shall we mourn you who are killed and wasted,sure that you would not die with your work unended,as if the iron scythe in the grass stops for a flower?

The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.

I come from a long line of generations!

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

In memory of Terry Pratchett, who showed us all how it's done

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

The best armour of old age is a well spent life perfecting it.

The best armour of old age is a well spent life preceding it.

He won't tell me very much about his war. None of us do. It isn't something to share, you see. What we've seen, what we've done, ought to stay in France. But it didn't, it came home in our memories. They aren't memories we want you to know. You are the world we fought for. Safe and sane and not ugly. Better to keep it that way.

All told, the Fifty-first Congress passed 531 public laws, representing an unprecedented level of legislative accomplishment unequaled until Theodore Roosevelt's second term. After the final adjournment on March 3, the historian and Republican congressman Henry Cabot Lodge wrote, "No Congress in peace time since the first has passed so many great & important measures of lasting value to the people.

The greatest thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years. C.S.LEWIS

psychological, and moral implications it has had both for its contractors and its victims. By treating the present as a somehow neutral baseline, with its given configuration of wealth, property, social standing, and psychological willingness to sacrifice, the idealized social contract renders permanent the legacy of the Racial Contract.

By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.