Quotes About Legacy

I know as well as you must that there are many articles of belief clinging to the skirts of our time which are the bequests of the ages of ignorance that God winked at.

My dear friend and colleague Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American hero. She spent her life fighting for the equality of all people, and she was a pathbreaking champion of women's rights. She served our Court and country with consummate dedication, tirelessness, and passion for justice. She has left a legacy few could rival.

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There was a senator, I think it was after my pancreatic cancer, who announced with great glee that I was going to be dead within six months. That senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now himself dead, and I am very much alive.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent a lifetime flourishing in the face of adversity before being appointed a Supreme Court justice, where she successfully fought against gender discrimination and unified the liberal block of the court.

Notorious RBG: You can't handle the Ruth.

The flyest justice SCOTUS has ever seen.

Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you. And no fascist-minded people will drive me from it.

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.

Your life, it lies before you Like a path of driven snow. Be careful how you tread it For every step will show.

A house needs a grandma in it.

A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.

Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things.

It is one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

On the green they watched their sons Playing till too dark to see, As their fathers watched them once, As my father once watched me...

Grandparents are a delightful blend of laughter, caring deeds, wonderful stories, and love.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatsoever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die; for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch, which I have got hold of for the moment; and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

...the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

He did not belong to us, he belonged to the world.

We have King as our tomorrow.

Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children.

My generation is not strong. My grandfather fought in World War II. I had a panic attack during the series finale of Breaking Bad.

George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles.

Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work.