Quotes About Legacy

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants

N?u tôi nhìn ???c xa h?n, ?y là vì tôi ??ng trên vai nh?ng ng??i kh?ng l?

Wenn ich weiter sehen konnte, so deshalb, weil ich auf den Schultern von Riesen stand.

Wenn ich weiter als andere gesehen habe, dann nur deshalb, weil ich auf der Schulter von Giganten stand.

N?u nh? tôi ?ã nhìn ???c xa h?n thì ?ó là b?i vì tôi ?ã ???c ??ng trên vai c?a nh?ng ng??i kh?ng l?

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

Write what should not be forgotten.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

All we have are our stories," said Edward.

Isabella Mary Beeton

Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.

We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come tomorrow has possibilities, and we must think of it, the simplest glimpse of that possibility of goodness. That will be our strength. That has always been our strength.

It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.

But what have Cortes and Pizarro or the others to do with me? You carry them in your blood as I carry the blood of Montezume; expeditions of them are harbored by your heart and your mind carries their supply trains. You've changed your helmet for a frontier hat while I have changed my robes for overalls and a black leather jacket. The costumes may have changed but the blood is still the same, gringo.

the Thing has stirred in its moorings. The Thing that my Grandfather Harry and his generation of Harrys had thought was nothing but a false alarm.

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Had not the jutting bones of the world survived a thousand aeons of human life? Could anything I or any human do really matter in the face of that? [Chapter 35, page 510]