Quotes About Legacy

He recalled what Lyndon Johnson had said when Kennedy was assassinated and Johnson suddenly found himself president. Words to the effect that he would do the best he could do, because that was all he could do.

You ever see that thing on old tombstones, that Momento mori? That's Latin. You know what it means?" The roommate gave a negative grunt. "It means something like, 'Remember you gotta die.' And that's what this whole thing is like, like one great big reminder that we're all gonna go sooner or later, so we better be damn good to each other while we're here.

He'd read that rage remained forever in a place that had once nurtured it. "The spirit of the place.

Progress is building something lasting for future.

Work hard, but make time for you love, family and friends. Nobody remembers powerpoint presentations on your final day

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

Tiger father begets tiger son.

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers...

And still to-morrow's wiser than to-day. We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so.

Good fathers make good sons.

Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.

Sons quote their fathers, in words and in deeds.

Tattoo the pristine flesh What is permanent anyway? This ink only lasts 'til the grave, Time will decompose That which we did compose.

[P]eople tend to remember their teachers for an entire lifetime, long after school is over.

Once an old man, spoken of in one of Aesop's fables, believing himself at death's door, called his twelve sons to his bedside and gave to them a bundle of twelve stout sticks, which he asked them all in turn to break, which task they were unable to do. The father, separating the bundle, gave to each a stick which he readily broke. Now, the moral to be deducted from this fable is eminently applicable to us as an organization, and means that in union there is strength.

And why should I rekindle these smoking embers? Why call up from their casements the ghosts of the dead?

Walking down the third aisle of the stack beneath tin-shaded lightbulbs, smelling the familiar library scents of must and dust and cinnamony, aging paper, he thought: When I die, I guess I'll go with a library card in one hand and an OVERDUE stamp in the other. Well, maybe there's worse ways.

You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown.

We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."

Peace is the only adequate war memorial.

There has been war since the beginning of time and we are no smarter than the people that have gone before us. There is apt to be some more war.