Quotes About Legacy

I loved that bridge he built over the creek in the back of the house. [...] Or that baby bed he built for Ricky. I told him he didn't have to spend so much time on it, but he said it had to last, and the thing ended up weighing two hundred pounds and I couldn't move it. I said, 'How long does a baby bed have to last, anyway?' But maybe he thought if it was strong enough, it might keep Ricky a baby.

Everyone clings to their history with a vengeance because it anchors their identity.

the nation's canonization of Martin King . . . we have sought to remember him by forgetting him.

If young George felt closer to his grandfather than to his own father, it was probably because George Wallace, Sr., was almost totally absorbed in a ceaseless, savage, losing cat-fight with life.

Mike thought a minute, and then said, "I'm going to change, and the reason I'm going to change has nothing to do with money and it has nothing to do with this firm. I'm going to change because I have two sons, and if they were receiving this same feedback from you in twenty years, I'd be ashamed.

Peter Drucker, who said, "Our mission in life should be to make a positive difference, not to prove how smart or right we are.

Meses más tarde Lourdes Ruiz, la Reina del Albur, se murió de un infarto a poco de haber cumplido 47 años.)

Emily Dickinson reminds us what it's like to be alive. And when she does—she takes our breath away.

Kindness should be immortalized every bit as much as power.

Graveyards are needed before churches.

We are the Blisses,' Dearest said, patting her hand. 'Nothing we do surprises people anymore.

The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.

I have no intention of being a footnote in someone else's life." [on being a war correspondent during WWII]

Someday our children, whom we love, may blame us for dishonoring America because we did not care enough about children 10,000 miles away [written, 1967].

It hit me then that my family is gone, really gone, and even though I have ll these kids, they'll never know my family, so in a way they'll never know me, because they don't know me with my family. I don't have a context for my children.

He was big, that Sid. He was a force, a character, and I wondered fleetingly if Sally and I would ever seem as big to our offspring as Sid had seemed to us.

Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise), "that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land." (Eph. 6:2-3)

I'll give you one more answer. The words Bashasa spoke to me before he died were 'Don't let everything we fought for be for nothing.

Though the loved one has died, the memory, the sense of the person's presence, has not—nor the possibility, after a while, of taking continuing joy not only in the reminiscences from the past, but in the extension of the person's spirit into our ongoing lives.

Who you are is not your name or your family. Who you are is more essential than that; it comes from God. And what you make of yourself, that is what you give back to God.

There will be another job, but you will never have another family. Someday you're going to be lying on your deathbed and you aren't going to be saying, "Gosh, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.

awkward parent. His mother died in childbirth

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!