Quotes About Legacy

That was a people that hath passed away. They shall reap the fruit of what they did, and ye of what ye do! Of their merits there is no question in your case.

All the children of the powerful were being groomed to be powerful

I'm afraid, you're right...though not only of them. We'll lose everything, including the way we live,' Hussein said. 'And these young people will lose even more. One day they'll make them spit on all that we know, and will make them recite their laws and their story of the world as if it were the holy word. When they come to write about us, what will they say? That we made slaves.

My mother's father, Ahmed Musa Ibrahim, was an educated man, a travelled man, who had no time for these self-deluding patrician airs. He preferred to speak about justice and liberty and the right to self-fulfilment. He would pay for these words in due course. He had spent two years at Makerere College in Uganda and one year at Edinburgh University in Scotland, completing a Diploma in Public Health.

Lie heavy on him earth, for he laid many a heavy load on thee (suggested epitaph)

Oviedo, que escribe catorce horas por día, será el conquistador de los conquistadores, el depósito de la verdad. El corral de hechos y personas. Hará con la pluma mucho más de lo que efectivamente hicimos nosotros con la espada. Curioso destino. Pero Jehová mismo no sería Jehová si los judíos no lo hubiesen encerrado en un libro.

The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.

It's not just a matter of having lost the land and the wealth that came with it. It's a matter of the fact that we lost a way of life that we should have been able to pass on to our children and to their children, but which we can't because of what was taken from us. (Harris Neck, Georgia native Wilson Moran as quoted by Aberjhani in The American Poet Who Went Home Again)

The people of the city of Savannah within their collective conscience could follow previous examples in history and forgive the atrocities of actual slavery committed against slaves themselves. But what was it [the city] to do with the knowledge that children completely unaware of the greater ramifications of slavery were led to the Civil War slaughter in its name? How does one acknowledge with forgiveness such an unforgiving mutilation of one's own mind, body, soul, and legacy?

Knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

Remember the Ladies.

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

We live as Ethiopians and die as Ethiopia.

Although the Mongols dominated Russia for close to two and a half centuries, from 1240 to roughly 1480, there is still no consensus among scholars about the extent to which they influenced the course of Russian

What shall I do to be forever known,And make the age to come my own?

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Laws change; people die; the land remains.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.