Quotes About Legacy

China as the present-day economic superpower is the legacy of Deng Xiaoping.

El renacimiento que experimentó Reino Unido gracias a Thatcher fue un proyecto económico y espiritual. Cuando se convirtió en primera ministra, la decadencia nacional no solo se debía a una

El renacimiento que experimentó Reino Unido gracias a Thatcher fue un proyecto económico y espiritual. Cuando se convirtió en primera ministra, la decadencia nacional no solo se debía a una economía

Snad žádná domácí diskuse v amerických dÄ›jinách nezanechala tak hluboké rány jako spory kolem války ve Vietnamu.

To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

The only meaning of death is how I live my life now and what I will have to look back upon as I lie dying.

the French surgeon René Leriche observed, we all carry cemeteries within ourselves.

But it seems to me now that it no longer matters if I never finish. I will try not to wait for the end, but I hope to be ready to leave, booted and spurred, when it comes. It is enough that I am well for a little longer, that I have been lucky to be part of a family – past, present and future – that I can still be useful, that there is still work to be done.

Our fear of death is deeply ingrained. It has been said that our knowledge of our mortality is what distinguishes us from other animals, and is the motive force behind almost all human action and achievement.

I will be missed after my death, but I will miss nothing.

Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.

The quality will remain when the price is forgotten.

Grass that is here today and gone tomorrow does not require much time to mature. A giant oak tree that lasts for generations requires much more time to grow strong.

Harald said, 'In England, in the south, there is a circle of great stones, about which men say the same thing. It was there before the Romans came, and it will be there when Odin decides to crumble the world in his two great hands. There are some such monuments which are meant to teach man that he is but a little thing, with a life hardly longer than that of a spring fly.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.

A Lady with a Lamp [Florence Nightingale] shall standIn the great history of the land,A noble type of good,Heroic womanhood.

The bards sublime,Whose distant footsteps echoThrough the corridors of Time.

They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

Listen, my children, and you shall hear,Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;Hardly a man is now aliveWho remembers that famous day and year.