Quotes About Legacy

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

I write with my past, about the future, for the present

I believe the children are our future

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

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.

In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

I dont believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

Education : a debt due from present to future generations.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

The future has an ancient heart.

Takes a long time to happen so fast... To realize that your future is somebody else's past

The importance of the House is... far more important than my future.

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.

Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.

The greatness of the Raiders lies in their future.

I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?