Quotes About Legacy

My happiness comes from the donation of my life in many ways for the current and for the future generations.

People will not remember what you did for living, they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving.

This world belongs to our future generations, so we have to take utmost care of it.

To live forever, die in the service of others.

He designed the iconic Bob Dylan poster and the I Love New York icon. Milton Glaser

Small said, "But what about when we are dead and gone, will you love me then, does love go on?" …Large (replied) "Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, some of the stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in the evening skies, for you see…love like starlight never dies…

Henry Adams: "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter. —Carl Jung

We late-lamented, resting here, Are mixed to human jam, And each to each exclaims in fear, 'I know not which I am!' " —Thomas Hardy, "The Levelled Churchyard," 1882

with prejudice, but that's another conversation.) Second, even if one were to posit that there is such a cultural or ethnic entity as Semites, this argument assumes that members of a group cannot be prejudiced against their own. In fact, one of prejudice's most debilitating legacies is how the people targeted come to believe that the negative stereotypes thrown at them are true.

Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives. We own our thoughts, but everything else is just borrowed. We use it for a while, then pass it on.

Who a person becomes later in life, how he lives, how he dies, cloud's people's memories of him, spinning and skewing-distorting-their portraits of him as a child. But we will draw Vincent as clearly as we can using not only impressions but also strong lines, sharp details. A picture will emerge.

He doesn't talk about his past, or his future. He passionately wants to make something of his life, to make an offering to the world. And to his family. He doesn't want to make letterheads! How can he be true to himself and keep the bond with his family?

The world would not have Vincent without Theo.

At Harvard, so the story goes, one of Carter's professors said that Black people had no history. Carter remembered his father's pride, his mother's courage, and Oliver's determination to learn. He remembered reading the newspaper. Carter spoke up. "No people lacked a history," he said. The professor challenged Carter to prove him wrong. For the rest of his life, Carter did just that.

Then how about this: Remember Austin Gollaher, because what we do matters, even if we don't end up in history books.

You'd have to look hard to find Oliver's name in a history book. But in that small mining camp in Fayette County, West Virginia, Oliver did something important: he changed on life, and that life changed many.

The implications of such science are life-changing, because it tells us that what we eat each day affects not only our health but that of our children and children's children—for better or worse. We have control over our health and whether we bring our children into the world with genetically coded health advantages—or not.

You are history

We Germans invented all the big movements of the twentieth century. Phenomenology from Heidegger and Hegel, communism from Marx and Engels. So you will have to excuse us for being a little stiff in our limbs – we have been busy.

Thou hast begot children not only for thy selfe, but also for thy countrie, which should not only bee to thy self a joy and pleasure,but also profitable and commodius afterwardes unto the common wealth. —BARTHOLOMEW BATTY, The Christian Man's Closet, 1581

You will find that thing that makes you unafraid to die. That important thing that makes your life of value.

It's true--I can see it now--we are made of where we've come from, molded by landscape, weather, harbors, hunger, and war, as much as by individual ancestors. The experience of the place--its struggles, strife, and horrors--accrues, even if we haven't personally experienced it. We are, still, its inevitable consequence.

things you do are the things you do. Nothing can change the facts. Others might lie or distort those things, but they never go away. Your choices, your actions are forever. You leave a footprint that can be followed if someone is determined to look closely enough.