Quotes About Legacy

Mais on laisse n'importe quel connard débile devenir père

Your father was a great man. He didn't kill himself. The grief did that." "I

None of us is getting out of here alive. But it doesn't have to be today.

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

We must decide where we want our ministry to count—in the momentary applause of popular recognition or in the reproduction of our lives in a few chosen people who will carry on our work after we have gone. Really it is a question of which generation we are living for.

We must decide where we want our ministry to count—in the momentary applause of popular recognition or in the reproduction of our lives in a few chosen people who will carry on our work after we have gone.

The gods of yesterday become the devils of tomorrow.

How did you come to your crown, you and that black-faced pig beside you? Your fathers did the fighting and the suffering, and handed their crowns to you on golden platters. What you inherited without lifting a finger — except to poison a few brothers — I fought for. "You

They were neither the first nor the last to gild the name of thief.

Mingle my dust with the burning brand, Scatter it free to the sky Fling it wide on the ocean's sand, From peaks where the vultures fly.

What you inherited without lifting a finger—except to poison a few brothers—I fought for.

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

Let no man write my epitaph…. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

when my Country takes her place among the nations of the Earth , then and not 'till then shall my epitaph be written Robert Emmet

Is it really so bad if no mound is built over your bones, and you are tossed out unburied? What odds does it make if you are cremated, exposed to be eaten by dogs or ravens, or consumed underground by worms?

Shortly before death he was asked what his wishes were regarding funeral arrangements. "Don't trouble yourself, the stench will ensure that I get buried." "But", the other objected, "isn't it wrong that the body of a great man should be exposed as food for birds and dogs?" "On the contrary, " he said, "it's the part of a great man, even in death, to be of service to the living.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity.

Kill the heroes and you kill the soul of a nation.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

At a certain level of wealth, you care more about things like the environment and what's going to happen to later generations than preserving your own money.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich