Quotes About Legacy

The only thing you can take with you when you die is what you are. Character counts more than possessions.

People forget what you kept, but they will never forget what you gave.

Liberty was paid for by past sacrifices and given to us as a present gift.

Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.

The candle inside will eventually burn out; the question is: did it light the path for those following us?

We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.

To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

I drag my myth around with me

I like the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

On my tombstone, I want written, 'He never did 'Love Boat!

A man does not belong to the place he was born in, but to the place he chooses to die.

Nuestros trabajos en piedra, en pintura, en impreso están a salvo -algunas de ellas por unas pocas décadas, o uno o dos milenios- pero finalmente todo deberá caer en la guerra o desaparecer en la final y universal ceniza.

Finally, under Mao Zedong the project of destroying the old core of Chinese identity was carried to a grim conclusion with a violent and totalistic resolve. But, like a forest fire that clears the way for new growth, it may have ironically also helped prepare the way to usher in a spectacular new kind of economic growth under his successor, Deng Xiaoping.

Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.

If Sparta and Rome perished," Rousseau wrote, "what state can hope to endure for ever?

Stranger, tell the Spartans that we behaved as they would wish us to, and are buried here.

What do you think the path of your predecessors was, but the path of adventure?

Now, I will make better use of my body and be useful by increasing food production just a little, then I will bid farewell to this world. It would be good to lighten the burden on this country. That is my path to best serve my country as a useless invalid. I want to die soon.

The problem with tradition is that it can cause even an error of great magnitude to go unnoticed

En el fondo, nos hemos equivocado al prejuzgar que convertirse en un abuelito de trescientos años ha supuesto una desgracia para Urashima.

African culture inspired African American culture, however African American culture inspires world culture!

You were born 1 of 1 and original, dying a copy should never be an option