Quotes About Legacy

All the positions, fortunes, celebrities disappear as a snow flake that melts on the black asphalt of death. So does beauty too.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

And now, I am dying beyond my means.

See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.

A deceased man has the right to breathe life into the womb of his wife and prove that love is stronger than death.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

There's a clock on the wall and it's measuring down The time you have left til you're dust on the ground The people you love with the time that you've got Determine if you are rememebered or not v I v a l ' a m o u r

No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

When I'm gone just carry on, don't mourn, rejoice every time you hear the sound of my voice. Just know that I'm looking down at you smilin', I didn't feel a thing so baby don't feel no pain, just smile back..

I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist...I got $2,100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. ...I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit.

Thus it happened that the great-grandsons of Yellow Hair, Custer, were counting coup on the Blue Coats of 1973. For

Sioux and elephants never forget.

Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.' So the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day" (Joshua 5:9 NASB).

He who has done his best for his own time, has lived for all times. (Igbo proverb)

For with but one generation, History and truth are lost forever.