Quotes About Legacy

Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

We serve the future by protecting the present.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

Well-behaved women never make history.

Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

Was it her imagination, or did everyone in town have roots that went back to the beginning of time, complete with ancestral home and pedigree? Was one of those pedigrees hers? Were some of her roots here in this bayside town? Jamie

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

For as much as you can, build the past and the future that you can carry yourself.

Let my son never forget the last words of his father, which I repeat emphatically; let him never seek to avenge our deaths.

By 1902, when Abuelito, my grandfather, was twenty years old and moving the tassel from one side of his graduation cap to the other at the University of Notre Dame, Julio César had thousands of rain-forest Indians making him rich. They were the Huitoto, the Bora, the Andoke, the Ocaina: from fierce headhunters to doe-eyed forest folk.

No sorprende que a lo largo de los años los latinoamericanos hayan aprendido a aceptar las imperfecciones humanas de sus líderes. Bolívar se lo enseñó.

That should be my epitaph when I die 'she did not have to do it'.

One benefit of being an old woman now, and moreover one who has been called a "national treasure," is that there are very few who can tell me what I may and may not write.

I wish it could have been otherwise. But in the end … this is part of our past, whether we are proud to admit it or not. Whatever our place is to be in the world, it must be a place we can claim with honesty, not one we slip into on the basis of a lie.

no fame is actually worth much now-a-days,—because it is not classic fame, strong in reposeful old-world dignity,—it is blatant noisy notoriety merely.

Soon I will die, he said, and then what everyone has been so afraid of for so long will have finally happened, and then everyone can rest.

Si noe som er innlysende,si det for første gang, og du blir udødelig (Norwegian)

This anthology is a testament to American Indian consciousness continuing to circulate, regardless of past or present genocidal attempts, whether cerebral, endemic, systematic, or otherwise.

I come from a long line of madwomen, and of this I am proud.

What your mother left undone, women who are not your mother may do. Women who are not your lover love you.

We are all living history, and it's hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing's certain, though: if we throw it away, it's gone.