Quotes About Legacy

Not until midlife did she truly believe that she had a right to exist, that the forces of nature had created her not as an afterthought and companion - a bent rib, as the infamous Malleus Maleficarum had it - but as the mainstay of the continuing Creation, as the daughter of a daughter and a woman whose daughters in turn would bear daughters.

By the time these words are read, the centuries-old cedar, hemlock, and balsm of the cutblock known as Leah Block 2 will be a distant memory, long since processed into siding, two-by-fours, perhaps even the paper that has been recycled into the pages of this book.

The occupation of Japan was the last immodest exercise in the colonial conceit known as "the white man's burden."2

A war doesn't merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that's left is the brute, the creature that we—you and I and others like us—have brought up from the slime.

This was the power of Andrew Carnegie's legacy. He had used his wealth to set up over 2,000 public libraries across North America. Three generations after his death, they were continuing to pay dividends. These new American citizens were fortunate that Carnegie had thought long-term. For the Taiwanese boys, Carnegie had created the hardware, and their mother the software. This bode well for their assimilation and success in America.

While I made my living as a coach, I have lived my life to be a mentor, and to be mentored! Constantly. Everything in the world has been passed down. Every piece of knowledge is something that has been shared by someone else. If you understand it as I do, mentoring becomes your true legacy. It is the greatest inheritance you can give to others. It is why you get up every day—to teach and be taught.

I'm very proud of the fact that while all the records were being set at UCLA by our basketball teams, I felt exactly the same way. Family is first. Always. Always.

you should learn as if you were going to live forever, and live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

I have prepared for death all of my life by the life I lived." Socrates was at peace with himself.

I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

You owe some things to the dead even if they're not your own dead. I guess in some way they're all your own.

Was it wise of me at all to have confined my career to one small classroom in one small town? Wouldn't I be coming away from my life's work with a higher heart if I hadn't been washing the same blackboard for forty-six years?

If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. SIR ISAAC NEWTON

The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans

Your relationship or lack of relationship with God through Jesus Christ continues after your last breath on this earth.

We will remember the way things used to be, and teach our children to be better than us. The generations that follow will remember with us. In that day, we will all be free

If she were alive today, she would be ashamed of me. I'm trying to change that.

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

You have inherited (the) most from yourself, not from your family! The family is only a river through which Soul flows.

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

All it takes is one person in any generation to heal a family's limiting beliefs.