Quotes About Legacy

Words are the only things that last for ever.

And afterwards the People did wander over that Country of Silence, and made visit and honour to their Ancestors, if such were deserving.

It is said that to this day that educational establishment still bears the scars of their activities.

instead of investing a stream of savings, you have just inherited a lump sum of money at age 25 from Uncle Fred that is large enough to fund your retirement at age 65

For most of the period following the fall of Rome, the adherents of a powerful new monotheistic religion dominated medieval long distance commerce as completely as the West dominates such commerce today; the legacy of that former dominance is still all too visible.

When Vasco da Gama breached the Indian Ocean, the playing field had just been vacated by the one force capable of repelling him.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar…. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose "the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere"?

People who grow up without a sense of how yesterday has affected today are unlikely to have a strong sense of how today affects tomorrow. They are unlikely to understand in a bone-deep way how the decisions they make now will shape and affect their future.

Garden as though you will live forever.

But I believe if you tell a story, it's like sending a nightingale into the air with the hope that its song will never be forgotten.

History. And from history came community. And community was something that spread out beyond itself, resulting in towns and nations. But it all began with family.

Like the beads of that bracelet, all things are connected. The past, the present, the future. One long, beautiful work from the hand of Kitchimanidoo. You, me, those who have gone before us, and those who come after, we are all connected in that creation. No one is ever truly lost to us.

Before he'd shoved off in his canoe, he'd said, "We don't die. In the things we pass on to our children, we go on living.

Our histories, like my father's current body, are structures built of toothpicks.

I understood that the past is never really past. We live out history over and over, the worst of our memories right there alongside us, step for step, our companions to the grave.

But I believe if you tell a story, it's like sending a nightingale into the air with the hope that its song will never be forgotten.

Maybe the dead have finally gone to rest." "They never do, Bo." He thought about the dead who were with him now and who always would be, and he knew Otter was right.