Quotes About Legacy

Be careful, fathers, when you inordinately desire things to be better for your children than they were for you. Do not, however unintentionally, make things worse by removing the requirement for reasonable work as part of their experience, thereby insulating your children from the very things that helped make you what you are.

On the Black Sea, my father saw it begin. And on the Black Sea, seventy years on, I saw the beginning of its end.

Our memory reaches back through recorded history. The memory book lies open, and the hand still writes.

He held the post until the end of the war, an end that Leif Tronstad did not see for himself.

Fannie Moore, interviewed in North Carolina in 1937, recalled that (as transcribed): "De 'breed woman' always bring mo' money den de res', [even the] men. When dey put her on de block dey put all her chillun aroun her to show folks how fas she can hab chillun."12 Mary L. Swearingen of Bastrop, Louisiana, paraphrasing her enslaved grandmother, said, "Whenever a woman was an extraordinary breeder, she was mated by the master to his own accord.

Maria had died in childbirth-related complications sixteen years before, in 1804, as her mother Martha (or Patty) Wayles Jefferson had died from childbirth before her, and as her grandmother had died after giving birth to her mother.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering." Hardship is what makes the story of our lives more compelling in the telling. The

When we start putting together systems to make sure that future generations obey, what we end up doing is building an institution that conforms people to a pattern. They don't have their own faith, they're living off the residue of faith of a previous generation.

All of us long for success throughout our lives, but we should long to see greater significance later in life and not see it wasted on our younger years. Success, in and of itself, is a heavy burden to bear; to bear it without a firm foundation of maturity and strong character can lead to great personal destruction. I

You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Marcel Proust wrote that "what we call our future is the shadow that our past projects in front of us.

Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.

Thoreau, "At death, our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us, and are found out, or depart farther from us, and are forgotten.

Whatever is left behind in the passing of a rare talent, so much is always lost.

A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past. […] The telegraph is suited only to the flashing of messages, each to be quickly replaced by a more up-to-date message. Facts push other facts into and then out of consciousness at speeds that neither permit nor require evaluation. (70)

Thou shalt not write down thy principles, still less print them, lest thou shall be entrapped by them for all time.

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. ~Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood (introduction), 1982

But most of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. This fact is the principal legacy of the telegraph: By generating an abundance of irrelevant information, it dramatically altered what may be called the "information-action ratio.

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

He had not felt any genuine grief until the moment he accepted the flag, because he had hardly known his father and knew even less about what his father had done.