Quotes About Legacy

If we do not know about our own family history, we are more likely to repeat past patterns or mindlessly rebel against them, without much clarity about who we really are, how we are similar to and different from other family members, and how we might best proceed in our own life.

children are the carriers of whatever has been left unresolved from the generations that went before.

What was the good of trying to keep your own (children) if when they grew up their days were like your own- changeovers and ugly painted dolls?

Don't charge by the hour. Charge by the years.

If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?

Oh, if a man tried To take his time on earth And prove before he died What one man's life could be worth, I wonder what would happen to this world

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Life after death means for us that part of our life that lives on in our children, in the influence that survives us after death, and the memories people have of us.

suppose he were to donate a laboratory to Brandeis or even to Harvard? The

You know, we have a saying that other people boast of the beauty of their women; we boast of our old men.

Van zijn wieg tot zijn afwezige graf was de blijdschap die hij had verspreid steeds toegenomen. Eerst, bij zijn geboorte, waren alleen zijn ouders blij; later maakte hij het hele Duitse volk blij, vervolgens ook het Oostenrijkse; en toen hij stierf was de hele mensheid blij…

Alles zal vergeten worden en ten slotte verdwijnen en dan nooit gebeurd zijn. En het is deze gedachte, die hem plotseling de verdorven kracht geef om te doen wat hem te doen staat.

Van het bed keek zij hem aan en zei na een tijdje: 'De oorlog is pas afgelopen, wanneer de laatste die hem mee heeft gemaakt, is gestorven.

It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing.

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says, "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest." I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

I'll come back to George Washington just long enough to say goodbye to him. He was a great man and a good man, and when his work was over as our great first president, he went back home to Virginia for his long-earned rest. Just three years later, on December 14, 1799, at the age of sixty-seven, he went to his final rest. As