Quotes About Legacy

To experience something, you must be alive, so we cannot personally experience death. Yet we know it is real because every one of the hundred billion people who lived before us is gone. That presents us with something of a paradox.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

Thermopylae – The Battle that Changed the World

While you are alive, conquer death, and you shall have no regrets in the end.' Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.

We are our planet's autobiographers- so lets tell as many stories as is possible.

who will tend the farm museums who will dust the day belongings?

This book is dedicated to all good teachers everywhere, most particularly those of the William Levering School and Central High School in Philadelphia, to whom more is owed than can ever be repaid.

Much of the terror of death is terror of dying without having given. Without even finding what one has to give.

In Surprised by Joy Lewis notes how his father, Albert, was fond of telling anecdotes about Sir John Mahaffy, anecdotes which Lewis later (at Oxford) found attached to Benjamin Jowett. This, alas, is the fate of any great figure: to serve as a convenient magnet for stories or quotations that other people want to perpetuate, however inaccurately.

George W. Bush, on the dais, supplied what seemed likely to become the historic footnote to the Trump address: "That's some weird shit.

Donald Trump, even more than his father, was perceived as a vulgarian—after all, he put his name on his buildings, quite a déclassé thing to do.

The daughter will take down the father," said Bannon, in a Shakespearian mood.

he could yet make a case for a straight line from Nixon to Trump.

Nixon, Trump announced, was the greatest president.

The tale of someone's life begins before they are born.

Know this: even if you're like us and still doddering around above ground, someone out there from your past is probably pretty sure that you're dead by now. (p.125 )

Every word written is a victory against Death.

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

Few men have been admired by their own households.