Quotes About Legacy

Adams looks forward to teaching his granddaughters about planting trees, noting that they already show inclination toward this and need only be encouraged in the naturalist pursuits he has found so healthy.

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.

The land of familiarity belongs to the dead

All wars leave a legacy of bitterness and hatred, but internecine conflicts create the deepest scars. There is something different about such intrafamilial conflicts. People who once were part of one national family divide, define each other as the hateful enemy, and aim for the jugular. On both sides of an internecine conflict there is a feeling of betrayal, a sense that those who were brothers or sisters have been traitorous to their commitments or to the nation [1].

The thing about The Dubliners is - line'em up, the hardest rock'n'roll bands in the world, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Oasis, Nirvana, U2 - we're all a bunch of girls next to The Dubliners.

God didn't give you your children to build your reputation but to publicly proclaim his.

You and I were created for more than filling up our schedules with the self-satisfying pursuits of personal pleasure.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. The desire resides in each of us, and it is called transcendence. To transcend is to be part of something greater. We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.

One generation shall commend your works to another" (v. 4).

He reminds us not to live for the treasures of the moment:

Healthy ministry communities, which leave a legacy of long-term gospel productivity, have longevity and fruit because they are, at their core, communities of grace. Rather than achievement forming how the leadership community forms itself and operates, the gospel does.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.

We can only hope we leave behind persons whose lives are better for our having lived.

It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task.

I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

Who will be the next Einstein? Will his ingenious contributions ever be surpassed? Is there anyone brilliant enough to complete his dream of a unified theory of nature?

The moment historians examine the past they risk changing it, by selectively re-arranging events, consciously or not, according to the judgment(s) of posterity or their own baggage of values and prejudices.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

When he said someone had 'died", Erd?s meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left", the person had died.

Thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.

One thing that's certain about the future: it will have more history than the present.

Most players who retire with 14 career home runs and a lifetime batting average of .200 will be little remembered in five years, let alone forty. But most players aren't Bob Uecker.