Quotes About Legacy

And yet, old friend, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive.

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution centre for Bibles in many languages.

Books do not age as you or I do, they will speak on to generations we will never see.

our welfare in the hereafter depended on how much we could accomplish here on earth.

Three years after Mama's death, I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland.

old friend, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive.

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

There were two worlds, two lives, for each person: this one--brief, narrow, finite; and the hereafter-- eternal, limitless, infinite. Fame, to mean anything, should go with one into the next world, where one could enjoy it perpetually.

I don't want my sons to be traumatized by what happened to their father or grandfathers or great-grandfathers, but everyone should know about the lives of those who came before them so that they can figure out why their fingers are bent or why sometimes they feel bone-crushingly sad for no reason that anyone else can see.

Ask yourself this question: at the end of your life, is it really going to matter how many Likes you got?

If you're not dead, you're not done.

His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart today. Decades later, long after his life on earth tragically ended, the legacy of his burden lives on, improving lives for generations to come. All because one man allowed his burden to birth a dream.

When we think about the kind of person we want others to remember us for being, it's much easier to work backward from our deaths

Sons, they have their own plans, but a daughter or granddaughter, they will love you forever and take care of you in your old age.

There's a kind of cocksure attitude that overtakes a man in the presence of the dearly departed, a you're-dead-and-I'm-not kind of perspective.

Sometimes it was like that, I suppose; some people become so important in your life that they're almost like a trademark, but then they're gone. Sometimes they might reappear, but they're nothing at all like what you've assembled in your mind since their departure; sometimes you can't even stand them anymore, because they break up the legend and nothing dies harder than a good, personal legend.

Some fires can't bear to dampen and can provide heat even from the distance of time. As

Kind of like the tree that falls in the forest when nobody's around? I mean, if nobody remembers the history, did it still happen?

If no one remembered them, were they ever really here?

I couldn't help but remember the one at my parents' place after they had passed. I'd gone through their things and hadn't kept much, but when it came time for the auction I'd had a strong impulse to bid on everything like some museum curator attempting to keep the collection whole.

There are not enough Indians in the world to beat the Seventh Cavalry. —GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The story of Cassilly Adams's painting Custer's Last Fight, approaches the drama of the historic moment it depicts and is something I've wanted to write about for some time.

Sometimes all it takes is one small act of heroism to chart a new path for history

There was a lesson my mother had instilled in me at an early age, which had been reinforced by my experiences in Vietnam and by my twenty-four years as sheriff of Absaroka County. She said that I should protect and cherish the young, the old, and the infirm, because at some point I would be all of these things before my own journey ended.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground." "Voltaire?" I shook my head. "An old African proverb.