Quotes About Legacy

today is the first day and last day of your life...try to make every day a masterpiece.

The story God is writing through your life is someone else's subplot. It was true for David's mighty men. It's true for me. And it's true for you.

Tal como le prometí a Moisés, yo les entregaré a ustedes todo lugar que toquen sus pies».

When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was comforted by a piece of poetry given to her by a friend: They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind: In those whom they have blessed they live a life again.2

Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.

Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, and Brown all began as Christian institutions

Married life can seem as if it's only five days long. The first day you meet, the second day you marry, the third day your raise your children, the fourth day you meet your grandchildren, and the fifth day you die first or bury your spouse to go home alone for the first time in many years.

Prophets are not honored in their own land or in their own time either. The future bears them out—or it does not.

Storytellers don't run out of stories, they just run out of time.

It's not about who wins or loses, what you score, or how much money you make that matters in the end. It's not about fame, fortune, or vanity. What matters most are the friendships you forge, how you care for and love those who share the journey with you, and how many others you help along the way. That's what lasts. That's how you'll be remembered. You can bet on it.

the light you possess will burn to the great benefit of this world long after our poor footprints have been washed from the sand.

Empire of the Czar

First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children." —MILTON GREENBLATT, M.D.

Health is our model of all things invisible and unfelt. If, in this day and age, we rejected the need to live longer, what would rich Westerners live for instead?

I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.

Do you think you are going to live forever? Is life so long you rather rag somebody than be nice to them?

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

Children need fairy tales, but it is just as essential that they have parents who tell them about their own lives, so that they can establish a relationship to the past.

No benign deity plucks television news show hosts from their desks in the prime of life and then hastily compensates their friends and family by displays of irradiated droplets in the sky.

The Founding Fathers are always spinning in their graves over something, as is Ronald Reagan, or FDR. Edward R. Murrow is a perennial grave spinner in the news business (though in fact, Murrow was cremated).

With its architectural grandeur, Senator Gore said, our capital would someday "make wonderful ruins.

In the U.S. of the last several decades, this consolidation of economic wealth and power constitutes the important political backdrop of the rise of the carceral state. It benefits, too, from the historical backdrop—the legacies of genocide, slavery, racialized caste systems, and other forms of structural violence of the U.S. past.

Lynching's legacy, though, is also evident today in law enforcement's freedom from accountability in the shooting of black and other youth of color, thus displaying a de facto, and often actual, legalization of white supremacist killing of black life.