Quotes About Legacy

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

One writes to make a home for oneself on paper, in time, in other's minds.

just to be in his presence was an experience. It was what made Shackleton so great a leader.

These words were written on the flyleaf of a Bible given to the expedition by Queen Mother

where the stores left in 1902 should still be.

McNeish's tomcat, which had mistakenly been named Mrs. Chippy

He promised to write a book later about the trip. He sold the rights to the motion pictures and still photographs that would be taken, and he agreed to give a long lecture series on his return. In all these arrangments, there was one basic assumption - that Shackleton would survive.

And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-longThat on the stretched forefinger of all TimeSparkle forever.

Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast,And in a little while our lips are dumb.Let us alone. What is it that will last?All things are taken from us, and becomePortions and parcels of the dreadful Past.

Speak no more of his renown.Lay your earthly fancies down,And in the vast cathedral leave him.God accept him, Christ receive him.

Death closes all: but something ere the end,Some work of noble note, may yet be done,Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

The days will grow to weeks, the weeks to months,The months will add themselves and make the years,The years will roll into the centuries,And mine will ever be a name of scorn.

This is my son, mine own Telemachus.

The last great Englishman is low.

For men may come and men may go,But I go on forever.

I know that age to age succeeds,Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds,A dust of systems and of creeds.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

Punk had in him still the instincts of his dying race; his taciturn silence and his endurance survived; also his superstition.