Quotes About Legacy

Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well."

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir . . . America has defaulted on this promissory note in so far as her citizens of color are concerned.

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. . . . But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

Teoria mea … teoria mea este c? e mai bine s? mori cât? vreme nu È›i-a luat viaÈ›a totul. Trebuie s? p?strezi muniÈ› ii, energie pentru moarte È™i s? nu ajungi acolo complet golit, ca b?trânii ??tia acriÈ›i si nefericiÈ›i.

Just as you are now, so have I been; Just as I am now, so shall you be.

Alexander the Great is well-known as a larger-than-life king. It turns out that he was also a larger-than-life reader.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

It's a time of great paradox: we want to live forever but seem intent on executing the earth.

The long-departed cave lion is more indigenous to the moor than I will ever be.

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

What's bred in the bone comes out in the blood.

Catholic guilt was the most destructive sort of guilt because the person that it concerned had no real concept of it. They didn't even realise that it existed. Catholic guilt was something that grew alongside the person, alongside their personality and, in many ways, it did them some good. They felt the need to help the less fortunate, and they felt the urge to make their children better than they were.

Life at its longest is short, make the most of it while you still can.' How true that was.

Young Pat Junior was a handful, and he loved him with all his heart. He was his father's son all right; he only hoped that he didn't have anything of his paternal grandfather inside him.

You looked after your child, no matter who had fathered it, and no matter how much you might hate them deep down inside. A child was there for the duration of your life and, if you were really lucky, they buried you, and not vice versa. A mother would give her own heart to ensure the child she had created would live on, would be happy to do so. Would be loved.

Non Omnis Moriar. I shall not altogether die. Horace (65 BC-8 BC)

once your mother was gone, they were gone, and no one could ever replace them.