Quotes About Legacy

Ja seda tahan ma teile ütelda: meid, eestlasi, on niivõrd vähe, et iga eestlase siht - või vähemalt iga Wikmani poisi siht peab olema surematus!

History, lead-footed and relentless, weighed down the text.

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.

When I die, I can't serve you. When I'm in the grave, how can I praise your goodness?

A war produces corpses, but it does not bury them. At least, it doesn't bury them deep. I suspected that North's corpses were coming back to greet him, for we all have a string of spirits trailing at our back. They are like the anchoring tail of an enormous kite. If you handle them with respect, they only whisper a little bit sometimes, and the trail behind you is faded and vague. Handle them wrong--as North, perhaps, was finding out--and the spirits turn from mist to the dark smoke of napalm.

Booker T. Washington, Buddha, John Dewey, Leo Buscaglia, Moses and Jesus.

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

En el mundo futuro, nadie me preguntará: "¿Por qué no fuiste Moisés?". Deberían preguntarme: "¿Por qué no fuiste Zusya?". Rabino Zusya

Perhaps the greatest social servise that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family George Bernard Shaw

If a man for whatever reason has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU Legendary underwater explorer and filmmaker

love we give and receive is all that matters and all that is remembered. Suffering disappears - love remains

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. -Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. Thomas Campbell

To those before us, to those amongst us, to those we'll see on the other side. Lord let me not prove unworthy of my brothers." "Until Valhalla, Freddy.

The insignia would be meaningless to all but a few people, most of whom were dead. See you soon, boys.

The reason each and every one of us is alive today is the martial prowess and hunting abilities of our ancestors.

What's past is prologue. Written by William Shakespeare in The Tempest, it is also inscribed on a monument outside of the National Archives in Washington, D.C. How true that is.

He treasured his last visit with her, when, in a moment of lucidity, she'd recognized her only son, reminding him of Gideon's mission in Judges. "You've always been one of the few, James. Keep watching the horizon.

beacon of hope" to a legacy of ashes.

To those before us, to those amongst us, to those we'll see on the other side. Lord let me not prove unworthy of my brothers.

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

we have to save the history we have. You never know what small bit of it might change your life--or change the whole world.

Another Grandfather" Every generation tells of how the good world died.