Quotes About Legacy

We are not special. We are lit from within by a single candle flame, and when that flame is blown out and all light leaves our eyes, it is the same as if we never existed at all. We don't own our life, we rent it.

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

My only regret is to die four pages too soon.

If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you're proud of them, celebrate.

Like Whitney Houston, we believe the children are the future. But adults are in charge of the present, and we should start acting like it.

If you build a society in which children honor their parents, your society will long survive. And the corollary is: A society in which children do not honor their parents is doomed to self-destruction.

No matter how old you are, as long as a parent is alive, you are still a child. It is only after both die that you cease being a child. And then, all of a sudden, not only are you no longer a child, you are also next in line.

If you build a society in which children honor their parents, your society will long survive. And the corollary is: a society in which children do not honor their parents is doomed to self-destruction. In our time, this connection between honoring parents and maintaining civilization is not widely recognized.

Male passivity is a disease that robs a man of his purpose while it destroys marriages, ruins families, and spoils legacies. A passive man doesn't engage; he retreats. He neglects personal responsibility. At its core, passivity is cowardice.

Every day we need to decide what kind of legacy we want to leave. What kind of children do we want to raise? And what kind of relationship do we need to build with them?

Old soldiers never die, you know; they only fade away.

Don't just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference.

There is no UHaul behind the hearse.

At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. It's about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It's about what you've given back.

Don't just aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference

What now matters most is that we avoid ending human history. If there are no rational beings elsewhere, it may depend on us and our successors whether it will all be worth it, because the existence of the Universe will have been on the whole good.

I am the man my father loved and was.

If I die, he whispered in the dark, dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.

But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad. You do remember your father? No. I remember yours.

Jem made the little Scottish noise again, and Brianna looked sideways at him. Are you doing that on purpose? He looked up at her, surprised. Doing what? Never mind. When you are fifteen, I'm locking you in the cellar. What? Why? he demanded indignantly. Because that's when your father and grandfather started getting into real trouble, and evidently you're going to be just like them.

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

If one day, a bhailach...ye should meet a verra large mouse named Michael-ye'll tell him your grandsire sends his regards.

Ye gave me a child, mo nighean donn, he said softly, into the cloud of my hair. We are together for always. She is safe; and we will live forever now, you and I. He kissed me, very lightly, and laid his head upon the pillow next to me. Brianna, he whispered, in that odd Highland way that made the name his own.