Quotes About Legacy

It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories.

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Que el PRI creó instituciones pero también pervirtió sus objetivos.

It was a reminder in this time of tarnishing gilt, that should all else crumble, memories of gestures made, thoughtfulness considered, and seeds of inspiration planted, might outlast all.

the rest of the clan, building a mansion at 1 West Fifty-Seventh Street that would become the largest private home in the history of Manhattan.

Be it man or tree or institution, it is better to die too early than too late.

gold for those lives lost,

Staten Island, where the Vanderbilt family—or van

noted naturalist and Sierra Club cofounder John Muir,

Your secret was not the craftsman's delight in process, which doesn't distinguish work from pleasure-- your way was not to exalt nor avoid the Adamic legacy, you simply made it irrelevant: everything faded, thinned to nothing, beside the light which bathed and warmed, the Presence your being had opened to. Where it shone, there life was, and abundantly; it touched your dullest task, and the task was easy.

Why's it called the Battlefield Rest?" "You don't know this area?" "No." "Mary Queen of Scots fought her last battle here. Against her son's army. She lost.

I hadn't inherited my fate. I didn't need to pass it on to my girls. None of it was inevitable.

Vince went over to Skye. "I shouldn't have pressed her so hard," she admitted, whispering. "This could be the thing that pushes Aunt Minnie around the bend." He put his arm around her shoulder. "Don't blame yourself. She's had that turn signal on for twenty years.

I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, and money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the home.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

One bold era in the life of an individual can change the course of civilization.

That mansion, as it was called, brought on everyone who lived in it, or even went near it, a curse that was like that of the pharaohs.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. Its about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It about what you've given back" (23).