Quotes About Legacy

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.

Live as though you'll die tomorrow, but farm as though you'll live forever.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

Love is the only thing we can carry with us when we go and it makes the end so easy.

To serve thy generation this thy fate: "Written in water " swiftly fades thy name But he who loves his kind does first or late A work too great for fame.

I value individuals and societies. I care about those who are not born yet. That is the reason for my joys and blues.

What matters is what we make of our existence.

I want to make people around me happy, because I never know that laughter I gave to them would be my last gift I could offer.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.

If I drop dead tomorrow, at least I'll know I died in good health.

Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.

America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective.