Quotes About Legacy

It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation

Maybe all art is such a re-call, a call beyond the grave.

All of us dream of being part of something greater than ourselves. All of us want to make a contribution. The greatest contribution you make isn't in the money you give to charities. It isn't in the nonprofit foundations you establish. And it isn't in the work you do as a volunteer. Your greatest contribution to something greater, to the lives of others, comes in what you do from nine to five.

As they multiplied, they split their tracts amongst their sons.13 These lots (named because each son picked a lot to see which swatch of terra firma would be his) grew smaller, so small that their owners were gradually impoverished.

Arctic Circle that people would talk about 30 years later,

Because of this drug thing, baseball doesn't care about the record holder. He's just standing out there. Baseball cares about the standard of excellence, and that means people will always look to Henry Aaron.

Henry Aaron is the standard of excellence.

But a man is not born too soon, Paine had smiled. The world waits for men and dreamers, so how can a man be born too soon?

If Agrippa was indifferent to the needs or desires of Berenice, he was by no means indifferent to her bloodlines; she could claim not only the Herodian and Hasmonean ancestry, but also the bloodline of King David and a trace of the Roman Julian Gens. There was the highest blood in Israel. Who could marry it?

Geronimo [is]...an example of our practice of destroying those who oppose us and then honoring them.

planted seeds—and you're still reaping the harvest from them. Don't ever get so hung up on a specific lesson that you forget this fact: Good teaching—and

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?

Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters (San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1926), is still in print eighty years after it was written. I

What happens when we die? Everything pretty much goes on as before, except us

Jews in the Old Country called the cemetery the 'Village of the Still-Living'. I'd like to be remembered by loved ones so strongly in that way, as if I'm still here, wouldn't you? I would.

Large or small, our actions forge our futures, hopefully inspiring others along the way.

I've said often that every enterprise and organization has a memory. And those memories create a path for people to follow.

One of the terrible tragedies, for me, was the fact that my father passed away before he could witness what I achieved.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

Even though Coach Brantford was a young guy, he was 24 years old, he had an old school mentality. He probably got that from his dad.

You will always be Mrs West, all over the world. That is important to me and to you.

Gravestones tell truth scarcely fourty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old Families last not three Oaks.' – Browne, Urn Burial, 1658

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

Fin da quando ero piccola, - continuò lei gridando come prima, - mio padre mi diceva che il sangue ci viene dagli antenati. Per vivere uno può vendere frittelle, vendersi la casa, la terra... ma in nessun caso può vendere il sangue. Può persino vendere il proprio corpo, ma non il sangue. Vendendo il corpo, vende se stesso. Ma se vende il sangue, vende i suoi avi. Xu Sanguan, tu hai venduto i tuoi antenati!