Quotes About Legacy

I had no children and shall have none. There are moments when this troubles me, when I reflect that with me a line will end which has lasted since the beginning of humanity.

J'ai rêvé de ce que j'oublie, Je vis de ce qu'on m'a laissé.

I saw that they wanted to kill the past. When we are old, we let it die; when we are young and strong, we kill it.

We all came from our mothers' bellies. We all have hope in our veins. We don't want history to forget us, but the dead look after the afterwards.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Like their ancestors, Louise and her parents klutzed away their days.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Att döda människor är att för alltid leva tillsammans med dem.

What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea, we plant the mast to carry the sails, we plant the planks to withstand the gales--the keel, the keelson, and beam and knee--we plant the ship when we plant the tree.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman Who came of decent people; He built a church in Dublin town, And on it put a steeple.

An old farm is always more than the people under its roof. It is the past as well as the present, and vanished generations have built themselves into it as well as left their footsteps in the worn woodwork of the stair.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

Headed by Roger Conant, a man still clear to us as possessed of leadership and force, these four went southward and westward from Cape Ann and settled at a place called Naumkeag, to be better known in future as Salem.

The little plantations at Weymouth, Hull, and Mount Wollaston, although within the limits of Boston Bay, nevertheless do not concern us here so much as the solitary men who had made homes for themselves upon the land now actually part of the modern city. On an island in the harbour was settled David Thomson, "Gent.," an attorney for Gorges, with his family. Thomson died in 1628, leaving to his family his island and to the island his name, which it has borne ever since.

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity—unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

When a man dies he kicks the dust.