Quotes About Legacy

Whenever any society dies there must be heroes whose fightback is to not change.

He didn't know what if anything it was his mother got from his father's company.

The one that goes: I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.

because of the systematic mental erasure that the settlers had undertaken.

He befouled where he was with where he had been.

People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There'll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights.

If you plan for a year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant trees. If you plan for 100 years, educate your children.

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.

Tiger father begets tiger son.

If Heaven made him — earth can find some use for him.

Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.

The sheep may become king, but the sheep will always remember the lion. Congolese Proverb

There are two perfect men one dead, and the other unborn.

There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn

If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation.

For what purpose had all this been? In order that he could fade away in old age, like the glimmer of flame under the grey ashes?

All that had taken place in many years of life at Boranly-Burannyi junction, all this great strain over a long time, all the troubles, difficulties and joys he had lived through - all this had to be expressed in a few words of farewell in the few minutes of laying to rest. How much, yet how little, is given to a man!

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

Come here into the hollow of my conscience I will show you a thing or two I will show you the heat of my love. You know what? I can give you babies too Real leaders of tomorrow Right here under the bridge I can give you real leaders of thought.

To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What is required, we are told, is plays and films. Books are out of date! The book is dead, long live television! One question which is not even raised let alone considered is: Who will write the drama and film scripts when the generation that can read and write has been used up?

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

What would you do if you knew you would not live until 40?

What if we didn't just remember the defining moments of our lives but made them?