Quotes About Legacy

To my grandmothers, for tilling the soil in which we grew and for watering our roots with stories of all the old things

Sooner or later, the future always circles back to the past.

I wonder, sometimes, as we wander that graveyard, what will remain of me someday. Am I creating a legacy that matters, that will last? Will someone stand at my grave one day, wondering who I was?

was their job to always hold tight to the past, to tell it to the young'uns.

The glory is forever. Those were Aginisi's last words to her in Cherokee. Her death words. It was a done thing now.

I have lived entirely, every moment in this wild and delicate place. What more would there be for me to do, if I lived to be one hundred? One bold year is worth a dozen timid ones.

You know there is an old proverb that says, 'We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.' The first death is beyond our control, but the second one we can strive to prevent.

It washes away the last of Rill Foss. Rill Foss is princess of Kingdom Arcadia. The king is gone, and so is the kingdom. Rill Foss has to die with it. I'm May Weathers now.

May your names never go unspoken and your stories forever be told.

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.

Palmer was the big gun as far as getting the tour to where it is today. He was the most charismatic player ever. He did everything the public wanted him to do.

You need to take a historical perspective. You can't make sweeping statements about anything in the world, and there's never been an ideal time when everything made sense—it's just a question of how you look at the advancing tide and deal with remnants of the old order.

Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" — I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.

What binds me to this earth? What remembers the dead and grows toward them?

These secrets came down my own ornately curved and twisting family line. For family stories are never as direct as history books, and therefore they are more true.

Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last woman standing.

family stories are never as direct as history books, and therefore they are more true.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

You talk here about greatness. I just wanted to ask if you could understand what it was we were going for. That there is greatness in the attempt - something in the trying. That in trying, we set up a certain scaffolding that a new generation can use to climb to heights we only dreamed of.

The days of recording family births, deaths and marriages in the family Bible were far distant.

Life is like canvas and when you die you have to sign the bottom corner. Will you be happy with what the painting looks like?

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

[To Dan Quayle:] Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy.