Quotes About Legacy

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.

wondered whether the sins of the fathers could ever be washed away ..... or whether a legacy of tainted blood would always colour the lives of the children and the children's children. I didn't come up with any answers

someone who fulfils a role in society as a producer of artefacts and activities which confront death by telling us we are alive.

At a place known only to them they buried Crazy Horse somewhere near Chankpe Opi Wakpala, the creek called Wounded Knee.

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk. —TASHUNKA WITKO (CRAZY HORSE)

history has a way of intruding upon the present, and

Nothing lives long Only the earth and the mountains.

I was born upon the prairie, where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there are no enclosures and where everything drew a free breath. I want to die there and not within walls. I know every stream and every wood between the Rio Grande and the Arkansas. I have hunted and lived over that country. I lived like my fathers before me, and, like them, I lived happily. Para-Wa-Samen (Ten Bears) of the Tamparika Comanches

I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. —STEPHEN VINCENT BENET

The old men say the earth only endures. You spoke truly. You are right.

Indians!" Sitting Bull shouted. "There are no Indians left but me!

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.

He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.

History will be erased in the universal purgatory.

New Rome will be destroyed by the attacks of new vandals.

Procreation annihilates eternity.

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

I wanna leave here myself. But when I leave, whether it's on a bus or train or in a pine box, somebody gon' know I was here.