Quotes About Legacy

People can choose to treasure those parts of their heritage that they see as favorable and wish to keep, jettisoning what unpleasant truths they would prefer to forget.

The first slave cargo arrived in Boston in 1638. Winthrop, for his part, owned Indian slaves; his son purchased an African.47

There is no remembrance of those who failed, those without heirs or legacies.

North Carolina forged a lasting legacy as what we might call the first white trash colony.

Populated by what many dismissed as "useless lubbers" (conjuring the image of sleepy and oafish men lolling about doing nothing), North Carolina forged a lasting legacy as what we might call the first white trash colony

This model understands that there are real limits imposed on all individuals precisely because of our phylogenetic and generational legacy; that is, our predicament is less intrapsychically located than external and historical.

every man must die. I do not think about it. It is what we do in life that matters.

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

I want that child around for the rest of its life to remind Tom what a fool he is.

When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your President. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead. Thank

With his passing, it seemed the sun stopped shining on our family.

Ann said, "My father died when he was seventy-seven, still unable to forgive his mother.

Penwoman to Posterity.

Like the threads of finely woven linen, the warp and woof of friendship uniting the Warrens and Adams through successive generations was once again seamlessly bound.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wish we had.

Some things are up to us and some are not up to us." —Epictetus "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." —Angela Davis "If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself." "Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?" —Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The person who fears death, will never do anything worthy of one who is alive," as Seneca says.

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

Fabulous Aunt Fancy had died on her sixtieth birthday while parachuting from an airplane.

But I kind of think people marry the wrong people to get the right children.

I officially declare the opening of the First Danielle Fox Memorial," Abbie pronounced solemnly.

The land doesn't know who owns it. It was here before owners, and will be here after, content with itself in all seasons.