Quotes About Legacy

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

A genealogy is a striking way of bringing before us the continuity of God's purpose through the ages. The process of history is not haphazard. There is a purpose in it all. And the purpose is the purpose of God.

The questions that we must ask ourselves, and that our historians and our children will ask of us, are these: How will what we create compare with what we inherited? Will we add to our tradition or will we subtract from it? Will we enrich it or will we deplete it?

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another…and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world." —

Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

I don't want to be a star, merely dying.

Catherine Tekakwitha, who are you? Are you (1656-1680)? Is that enough? Are you the Iroquois Virgin? Are you the Lily of the Shores of the Mohawk River? Can I love you in my own way?

and once again I am a singer in the lower choirs, born fifty years ago to raise my voice this high, and no higher.

Now I am not your father but since your father's dead I will tell the bedtime story before you go to bed

Take the only tree that's left And stuff it up the hole In your culture

It is not we Greeks alone who are the inheritors of Greek civilisation... all, of whatever nationality, who share the ancient Greek attitude to life, are Greeks.

We are all prisoners of our past. It shapes and defines us and can no more be forgotten than changed.

In 1982, Raphael Nachman, visiting lecturer in mathematics at the university in Cracow, declined the tour of Auschwitz, where his grandparents had died, and asked instead to visit the ghetto where they had lived.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

I'm only human, and I have no doubt Spock will outlive me by many years. I can only hope that, once in a while, when people look at Spock's visage, they might sometimes think of me.

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

At the table, where food and stories are passed from one person to another and one generation to another, is where each of us learns who we are, where we come from, what we can be, to whom we belong, and to what we are called.

Suddenly I heard Virginia's voice calling to me from the sitting room window: "Hitler is making a speech." I shouted back, "I shan't come. I'm planting iris and they will be flowering long after he is dead.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.

Life well spent is long.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.