Quotes About Legacy

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

vivimos en una época de re-ciclaje en la que nada parece morir del todo, de la misma forma que nada, ni siquiera la vida eterna, parece destinado a durar para siempre.

If all these people were dead, this festivity would be extremely agreeable.

It is always the Age of Iron, and the Golden Age is always behind us, giving off a luster that illuminates the terminal shabbiness of our present condition.

Sort of like what Joruus C'baoth did for Thrawn. I'm not talking about ancient history, I'm talking about now. Luke & Jaina

The cost of survival of the lineage may be a lifetime of discomfort.

It isn't just the dying part; it's the thought of the day coming when I will have already been dead five, ten, two hundred years. All those centuries piling on top of me, like so many fallen trees. The fact that I will neither know nor care is of little comfort because I'm not, as yet, dead. The only cure for the fear of death is death.

have not got to where I vow to remember this. But we don't get to choose what sticks. How many times I have run my fingers along a picket fence and thought, "This! I will remember this moment always!" and all that remains is the memory of a desire to hold on to a memory. My uncle told me that every fall the dragonflies in Brazil return to the lake where they were born to touch down once more before dying. I have taken it on myself to remember this for him.

Among the many things that religious tradition holds in store for us is a legacy of wonder. The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted. Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin. Modern

The best prophet of the future is our past.

All we own is a passing intention, but what comes about will outlive and surpass our power.

A great event, miraculous as it may be, if it happened only once, will hardly be able to dominate forever the mind of man.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

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

Die when I may, 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.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

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

Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.