Quotes About Legacy

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.

The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.

An old Apache storyteller reminds us

Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

Environment isn't asking us to conserve her for her but for our future generations.

Human nature in time is engraved in history.

After you die, a rare friend or family member may carry your memory throughout life. Most will forget you. As if you were never here.

A tree is only as good as the seed it is stems from.

A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite.

To preserve the past is to save the future...

Leave the world in better conditions in wich you found it.

All must pay the debt of nature.

If you are lucky you will have the opportunity in your life to be owned by a good piece of land.

Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back.

Every tree is known by its fruits.

You are only as beautiful as your last action ...

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

Saul was going to kill Anansi.They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King Rat, and Saul was going to die, all in an effort to prove that he was not his rat-father's son.

she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her.