Quotes About Legacy

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think.

Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,That was built in such a logical wayIt ran a hundred years to a day?

In a thousand years archaeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.

Il nous faut remplacer les mourants, et les mourants savent qu'ils ne valent que pour ce qu'ils ont transmis.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

The Moving Finger writes and, having writ, Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultn after Sultn with his Pomp Abode his destined Hour, and went his way.

Bien sabían los ingleses que las naciones se construyen sobre las tumbas de sus héroes. De no ser así, ¿para qué querían la abadía de Westminster?

Yace aquí el gran Cardenal, que hizo en vida mal y bien, el bien que hizo lo hizo mal, el mal que hizo lo hizo bien.

Los pueblos que se apoyan sobre tumbas gloriosas son los que mejor se preparan para el porvenir",

Como no me he preocupado de nacer, no me preocupo de morir",

Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.

Accordingly, if we put it in extreme terms, all types of Zen other than Patriarchal Zen are inauthentic. However, in a positive sense, it may be said that Zen Outside the Way (Gedo Zen), Common Zen (Bompu Zen), Zen of the Mouth and Head (Koto Zen), Literary Zen (Moji Zen), Zen for Health (Kenko Zen), Zen for Medical Treatment (Ryoyo Zen), and all the rest exist within the realm of Patriarchal Zen.

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this ' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.

Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.

We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.

George Washington is one of the beacons placed at intervals along the highroad of history.

I don't want to hear about my death.