Quotes About Legacy

The thing about being dead, Mr. Lehman, is that there's no future in it.

By the time Rockefeller left office in 1973, SUNY was the world's largest university system, with a quarter million students attending classes on sixty-four campuses. For

I'm fighting now only for individual captive dolphins and dolphins in general but also for people, for the mind and sensibilities of future generations toward the world itself.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.

No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.

remember that death is the punctuation at the end of the sentence. It's up to us to decide what kind of punctuation it will be—a period or an exclamation point.

Someday you may be celebrated, but it might not be in your lifetime. Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won't—oppose the popular voice.

Just like my great-grandfather," Jack said. "He died in his sleep. Much more peacefully than the screaming passengers in the car he was driving.

The most important story we will ever write in our life is our own -- not with ink, but with our daily choices.

between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.' " She looked up.

We all swim deep in the river of our ancestry.

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own—not with ink, but with our daily choices.

Life has a way of talking to the future. It's called memory. It's called genes.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

Live desired in the world, and die lamented.

History repeats itself. Someone says this. History throws its shadow over beginning, over the desktop, over the sock drawer with its socks, its hidden letters. history is the little man in a brown suit trying to define a room he is outside of, I know history. There are many names in history... but none of them are ours.

I know history. There are many names in history but none of them are ours.

If the dead are watching, I want them to see us writing, dancing, singing, painting. I want them to see that we still reach out to each other.

History is painted by the winners.

There are many names in history but none of them are ours.

Here are your names and here is the list and here are the things you left behind

History throws its shadow over the beginning