Quotes About Legacy

I had the chance to meet an extraordinary personality, one of those beings who cross History determined to leave their imprint on the generations to come.

We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.

But what is a legend if not a story so great it has survived the retelling of countless generations?

The white man is in love with the past, with dead things, and soon he will become one.

We're just a hyphen between our parents and our kids. That's what you learn in middle age. Mostly this is something a mature person can live with. But every once in a while you just want to send up a flare. I too am here! Everybody is sympathetic until you try and make your minuscule life interesting and then they're like, What's wrong with you? You think you're special?

We come from nothing & return to nothing, but in between we're supposed to lead lives of grace and courage?

I regard a good budget as among the noblest monuments of virtue.

Once, on a walk with the president, Senator Selden Spencer of Missouri tried to cheer Coolidge by pointing to the White House and asking, in a joking tone, who might live there. "Nobody," Coolidge replied, "they just come and go.

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

He should have added the old truism that in war millions of young men butcher millions of other young men who have done them no harm and whom they have never met—all on behalf of a few old men who know one another only too well. *

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.

Warish Shah I call out to you, Rise from your grave, speak out and turn, Another page of the Book of Love

overlapping"—like generations. My lifetime overlaps my grandmother's and hers overlaps the life of her grandmother, but I was born long after the death of both my great- and great-great-grandmothers. Such are the events of Universe; every experience overlaps some but not all other experiences.

I didn't want my epitaph to be "She Played It Safe.

Their story, as the Delany sisters like to say, is not meant as "black" or "women's" history, but American history. It belongs to all of us. (From the Preface of "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years)

Fred may have considered silence his most important legacy. When acclaimed musician Yo-Yo Ma visited the Neighborhood and played Fred's composition 'Tree, Tree, Tree' on his cello, Fred took some time afterward to reflect. Let's take some quiet time to remember, he invited his television neighbor, to sit and think about what we've heard. And so he did. It wasn't dead air to him; it was thanking the God who inspires and informs all that is nourishing and good.

My grandfather was supporting the things I was trying out. It's great to have people like that in your life, and I hope that, well, as a matter of fact, he was the one who said, "You've made this day a special day by just your being you, Freddy."...Well, I've been able to pass that on to other children.

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

That's what this place is. It's a promise that there will be more memories. It's a promise that love will live on.

Regret is the sound of the ghosts of our own making. I will live with mine until I die.

They'd perfected this maneuver with the birth of Nica's fifth child and Taylor's namesake, the irrepressible Princess T.

You're…." He bit his lip then, and a look of sorrow crossed his face. "What?" But Kelly knew. His mother never said it, but the portrait was still up in the living room. "You look more like your dad every day.

Taylor's swallow on the other end of the phone was audible. "They named her Taylor." Brandon's smile burned at the back of his eyes. "She'll have a lot to live up to.