Quotes About Legacy

When I die," goes one internet meme, "I want my group project members to lower me into my grave so they can let me down one last time.

He is dark as history, origin of the word native: the weight of blood

Yet it wasn't until she was dead—until the New York Times saw fit to give her an obituary—that Rick realized just how far her story had traveled, how powerful the simple act of storytelling could be. Maybe it didn't matter if he never wrote his book about O-Six; maybe, in a way, he already had.

God said. "Prepare your son to build the temple. Give him everything he will need to do it. Devote your remaining days to being a godly father, and you will leave legacy enough.

I ended the war a horse ahead.

At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given nor how much have you won, but how much have you done not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

What I'm trying to say, whether you want to take it seriously or not, is that you can't build Judaism only on the foundation of one terrible crime. It is about this obsession with the Holocaust as a necessary sign of identity. As your only educational tool. Because for the children, there is no connection otherwise. Nothing Jewish that binds.

Hail, Lincoln! As the swift years lengthen Still more majestic grows thy fame.

In the king's bed is always found, just before it becomes a museum piece, the droppings of the black sheep.

The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Some man of powerful character to command a person, morally subjected to him, to perform some act. The commanding person suddenly to die; and, for all the rest of his life, the subjected one continues to perform that act.

Not to be deficient in this particular, the author has provided himself with a moral—the truth, namely, that the wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones.

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one… to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

Chase's ability to adjust his manner of leadership to the needs of his men begs comparison to one of the greatest and most revered leaders of all time, Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Apart from being dead its going to be necessary to die. And I'm dealing at the moment with the realization that at my age there is absolutely no way in which I can skirt the matter and come out on the other side.

Apart from being dead its going to be necessary to die. And I'm dealing at the moment with the realization that at my age there is absoutely no way in which I can skirt the matter and come out on the other side.

Words form the sinew and muscle that hold societies upright, he argued. Consider the Koran, the Bible, the American Constitution, but also letters from fathers to sons, last wills, blessings, curses. Thousands upon thousands of words infused with the full spectrum of emotions fill in the nooks and corners of human life.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

Even if I'm following the path my parents set, I need to take my own dreams and beliefs with me.

The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so spoilt, so taken with the very act of living that they don't remember long.

She was unsure of the meaning of the word 'envy' but had inherited it as she'd inherited her nose and arms and eyes.

for societies are built as much on what people choose to forget as what they remember