Quotes About Legacy

Endow your monuments according to your wealth. Even one day gives to eternity, An hour contributes to the future, God recognizes him who works for him.

As a man's name is not made small by his actions.

A goodly office is kingship, It has no son, no brother to maintain its memorial. But one man provides for the other; A man acts for him who was before him, So that what he has done is preserved by his successor.

Not speaks one who spoke, There speaks one who wilt speak, May another find what he will speak! Not a teller of tales after they happen. This has been done before ; Nor a teller of what might be said, This is vain endeavor, it is lies. And none will recall his name to others. I say this in accord with what I have seen: From the first generation to those who come after, They imitate that which is past.

To do what profits is eternity.

Het gedicht, die bescheiden poging van de dichter om niet nu maar pas later uiteen te vallen.

Historija radi Å¡irokim potezima, a fresco. Historija slika dekorativno!

Probavni sistemi koji traju jedva pet-šest decenija misle da su Spomenici ?ija ?e slava zra?iti još milenije.

And now Emily Davis was dead! Or was she, wondered Jane? What was that saying about those who lived in the hearts of others? Something to the effect that they never really died. If that were the case, then Emily Davis would certainly live on.

There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.

But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

The day this person left our organization is considered an annual holiday!" [quote from author's and his colleague's national study with over 400 participants in the research]

Roughly three thousand children6 under age eighteen lost a parent on 9/11, including 108 babies born in the months after their father's death.

The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

the incongruity of slaves waiting on the author of the Declaration of Independence.

Over decades that seem but a moment in time, lines of scarlet figures shuttled among the sorghum stalks to weave a vast human tapestry. They killed, they looted, and they defended their country in a valiant, stirring ballet that makes us unfilial descendants who now occupy the land pale by comparison.

Il nonno dimenticò che il sole, dopo aver brillato, si oscura, che la luna divenuta piena comincia a declinare, che un recipiente pieno si capovolge e che alla prosperità segue la decadenza; e commise un grave errore nel voler organizzare un grande funerale per la nonna.

Mio padre pensò che tutti gli uomini, nell'attimo prima di morire, meritano rispetto.