Quotes About Legacy

my dream, as taught to me by my own mother, was to be the final destination of a man's journey.

Only guard yourself and guard your soul carefully, lest you forget the things your eyes saw, and lest these things depart your heart all the days of your life, and you shall make them known to your children, and your children's children.

There are too many Dudleys already in this world

what would be left of it by that time—would be in the Kola

Our history is written in our rocks just as surely as it is in monastic chronicles, census returns or the stones and bones of archaeological

Alistair Moffat

Caesar described

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead, something to which lip service is paid in the vain hope of edifying the kids.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

E assim como só conhecemos a doutrina de Jesus pelos escritos de seus discípulos, só conhecemos a de Sócrates pelos escritos de seu discípulo Platão.

Trees are like people. We're alive, then we're memories, then we're not even that.

I have no idea what my great-grandparents looked or sounded like, or the great-greats before them, back to caveman days. It's weird to think they were like me once, goofing with friends, mad at their parents, brave, scared, everything. But now they're gone too, and nobody knows or cares. So why do I make myself miserable over things that years from now no one will even care about? If I knew that, maybe I could be happy.

Some folks is meant to make excuses. Some folks is meant to make history.

Mercy—or at least a nolle prosequi—may, perhaps, be the most appropriate conclusion to the crime—and the glory—of Robert E. Lee after all.32

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else . . . Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.

The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.

When you lose your parents young, there is simply a blight on your psyche that becomes part of your being. Really,

Some of our stories are shorter than others. Some last a hundred years. It's not how long you live; it's how you do it while you're lucky enough to have the chance.

She looked at him and shook her head, smiled a little as she told him, "You are so like your father." Then she looked past me and Zach, past Bex and Abby, to where Agent Townsend stood by the door with his arms crossed. "What do you think, Townsend, darling? Isn't he just like you?" She looked at Zach again. "I think he's just like you." And then she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

So, your dad's hot." "Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit.

You know, Ms. Morgan, that was your mother you just hammered," Mr. Solomon said.