Quotes About Legacy

The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

A life has no importance except in the impact it has on other lives

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives

XIX The Influence of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Xerxes BY JACOB ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS

The Mother of Xerxes. B.C. 522–484

The fate of the grand empire which Genghis Khan established was the same with that of all others that have arisen in the world, from time to time, by the extension of the power of great military commanders over widely-separated and heterogeneous nations. The sons and successors to whom the vast possessions descended soon quarreled among themselves, and the immense fabric fell to pieces in less time than it had taken to construct it.

PETER THE GREAT.

THE PRINCESS SOPHIA. 1676-1684

T he name of the father of Genghis Khan is a word which can not be pronounced exactly in English. It sounded something like this, Yezonkai Behadr,

Julius Caesar BY JACOB ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS

Genghis Khan BY JACOB ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS

"Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has lived before us-Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses."

Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative. Every animal leaves traces of what he was. Man alone leaves traces of what he created.

You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.

Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.

Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.

If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters

After the first death there is no other.' Do you know who wrote that?