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Quotes About Legacy

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.
~ Maria Montessori
A nation that forgets its past has no future.
~ Winston Churchill
Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future.
~ Jomo Kenyatta
Best there is... past, present and future! Ohhhhh yeahhhh!
~ Randy Savage
We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.
~ Patrick Pearse
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Since the cruel killing of cows and other animal have commenced, I have anxiety for the future generation.
~ Lala Lajpat Rai
We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.
~ Louis Riel
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us
~ Sappho
Future generations will judge us not by what we say, but what we do.
~ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.
~ Dizzy Gillespie
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.
~ Sylvia Earle
We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.
~ Warsan Shire
Every deed has a seed. In other words, the deeds you choose to do in this lifetime create a seed for future generations.
~ Jentezen Franklin
We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.
~ Winona LaDuke
Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.
~ John F. Kennedy
Find something to believe in, and find it for yourself. And when you do - pass it on to the future.
~ Hideo Kojima
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
~ Robert Smithson
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
~ Joshua Chamberlain
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
~ Wilma Mankiller
I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
~ Whitney Houston
My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.
~ Franz Liszt