Quotes About Legacy

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what will last, what poems will take hold of the imaginations of the future.

The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness."

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

I fail to find even one "Netaji" among the several thousand "Netas" of today. India needs our sacrifices once more and my entire life is and will remain dedicated to the service of my country.

Die with memories, not dreams.

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.