Quotes About Legacy

History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.

It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me who was what Jack Burden, the student of history, had grown up to be) There is always something. And I said, Maybe not on the Judge. And he said, Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.

The past is always a rebuke to the present.

When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can't get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can.

the Yankee dollar and Confederate dumbness combined to heal the wounds of four years of fratricidal strife. . .

For either killing or creating may be a crime punishable by death, and the death always comes by the criminal's own hand and every man is suicide. If a man knew how to live he would never die.

For what blessing may a man hope for but An immortality in The loving vigilance of death.

And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace

I had not understood then what I think I have now come to understand: that we can keep the past only by having the future, for they are forever tied together. Therefore

A man's got to carry something besides a corroded liver with him out of that dark backwood and abysm of time, and it might as well be the little black books.

What you are is an expression of history.

According to the article, Douglass responds, "No, no, … I am Marshal Douglass in Washington; here let me be Fred Douglass again."41 Was Douglass in some odd way asking to be a slave again or to be treated as a kind of boy, as some of his critics at the time suggested?

Everything I know is what I have been taught by the sayings and writings of people who have studied the sayings and writings of people who have—and so on.

We make only a small blaze, and then we go out; but in his springtime and his summer he had burned brightly enough, and he did not feel he had earned this sullen, joyless autumn.

Finding your path means finding out what you were put here on this earth to do. What is your life's purpose? Why were you given this gift called life? And what is the gift you give back to life?

Rich dad said that financial intelligence determined, not so much how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard that money works for you, and how many generations you can keep it.

and that income can be passed on for generations to come.

It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.

is yours, and only yours. Every day with every dollar, you decide to be rich, poor, or middle class. Choose to share this knowledge with your children, and you choose to prepare them for the world that awaits. No one else will. You and your children's future will be determined by choices you make today, not tomorrow. I wish you great wealth and much happiness with this fabulous gift called life.

You're taxed when you earn. You're taxed when you spend. You're taxed when you save. You're taxed when you die.

For many baby boomers, time, our most important asset, is running out.

Mike is now grooming his son to take his place, as his dad had groomed us.

And while I am glad some people have become richer and richer, I caution them that in the long run, it's not how much money you make. It's how much you keep, and for how many generations you keep it.

cling to ideas from their parents and the Industrial Age, and then fall out of sync with the present and with the future.