Quotes About Legacy

There is no better satisfaction than to see your children make your dreams theirs, and achieve them on their terms.

Your Purpose in life goes beyond 9-5pm and obviously beyond your pension age. Identify, pursue and nurture until it becomes a lifestyle.

Some people die and you realize that the only mark they left on earth are the tomb stones under which they lie. The impacts you make on earth should be something worthy to improve lives.

Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy--they should be about what mark you leave in the world.

A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

It is my belief that if you have children and you serve overseas, that if you should die, your children should get a free education.

I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

I want to do the best I can and let everyone else worry about legacies.

Slavery didn't end in 1865; it just evolved.

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.

I'm not going to be here forever. I don't plan on going anywhere, but I don't know anybody for whom death is an exception.

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.