Quotes About Legacy

This is what happens. You live past your time of importance and relevance and the world must be given over to the younger ones.

She walks away, and Arthur stares at the headstone. "Isn't that something?" he asks Nola. "We have a family.

Die and you'll be popular.

whether it was fortunate or unfortunate for Claire that neither of her parents had left be-hind any relatives suitable for raising her—all had either been too dilapidated, too debilitated, too disinterested, or too dysfunctional.

I have a title and a legacy to consider," Alex said. "I can't just choose any bride I want." "Why the devil not?" Jack argued. "I would think that a title and fortune such as yours would buy a fellow a measure of eccentricity now and then. Marry the chit and spend the rest of your life grinning at all the naysayers." Alex

Gradually people began to speak of the place as Amberside, though there were a few diehards who never stopped calling it Villa Caprice, or, as in the case of Eli Scaynes, the Villa Cay-priss. But Julian and Joe and Tom and Lucy and Davey never called it anything but the Blake's house; and Portia and Foster never called it anything but home. All their lives they knew that one of the best things that ever happened to them was to be able to call it that.

If God answers my requests my heaven will be spent on earth up until the end of the world. Yes, I want to spend my heaven in doing good on earth. . . . After my death, I will let fall a shower of roses.

Only one life, it will soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last.

Homemaking is a passion you can pass on from generation to generation.

Reputation is made in a moment; Character is built over a lifetime.

Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.

A daughter will follow in her mom's footsteps so make sure to set a good example.

There's no more secure investment in the next generation than your prayers for your children!

As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity.

your life is short and rare and amazing and miraculous, and you want to do really interesting things and make really interesting things while you're still here.

This is what I've found about life, as I've gotten older: you start to lose people, Angela. It's not that there is ever a shortage of people - oh, heavens no. It is merely that - as the years pass - there comes to be a shortage of your people. The ones you loved. The ones who knew the people that you both loved. The ones who know your whole history. Those people start to be plucked away by death, and they are awfully hard to replace after they go.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history.

Your father only has one foot on this earth. And really, really long legs . . .

What was there for Harper Lee to be afraid of, after all? Possibly just this: That she could not outdo Harper Lee.

All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but history teaches us that there have always been women who went through life without having babies.

THIS IS ME! MY FATHER WAS A GREATER WARRIOR THAN YOUR FATHER! YOU CANNOT EVEN LIFT MY SPEAR

The only thing that matters now is what you leave 'em with. If you drop this thing in the middle of the second act, they'll forget that they ever loved you. You've gotta earn it all over again now.

the problem with stage actresses is that once they are gone, they are forgotten. If you never saw her perform onstage, then you would not be able to understand her power and appeal.