Quotes About Legacy

One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.

The years forget our errors and forgive our sins, but they punish our inaction with living death.

As Warren Buffett once said, "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

How would your values and priorities change if you were told you had only seven days to live?

People perish. Books are immortal.

People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)

In his continent-spanning achievement his record perhaps even exceeded those of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Clive of India and Napoleon.

Perhaps the pain you are in is about more than you. Maybe the pain is about God creating the level of a cry that can and will open a spring that generations to come will partake from and be refreshed by.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

There are men who, at the bottom of the ladder, battle to rise; they study, struggle, keep their wits alive and eventually get up to a place where they are received as an equal among respectable intellectuals. Here they find warmth and comfort for their pride, and here the struggle ends, and a death of many years commences. They could have gone on living.

Each man must seek for himself the people who hold the essential beauty, and each man must eventually say to himself as I do, 'these are my people and all that I have I owe to them.

It is an effort to stop evolution, to hold things back to the plane of your judgment. It is a check on a great adventure of human life. It is negative to the idea that youth should go forward. It is for the coming generation to judge you, not for you to judge it. So it must happen, whether you will it or not.

After leaving the Arts Council in 2009, he pointed out that, in the official portraits of past Council chairmen, John Maynard Keynes was the only one smiling. That was because Keynes died before ever having to chair a Council meeting.25

It would drive a man mad to apprehend the whole tragedy, to know every effect and consequence, to know the names of every good man and woman, every genius and every saint, who was never born because their lineage petered out there on that rise at Franklin.

A young country does not serve as the pad on which England drew its sketches for the immense Gulags of the twentieth century without acquiring a few marks and scars.

Joan Maragall

No one on their death bed wishes they would've been meaner.

History is nothing but the lies we tell about our ancestors

Is there a Mrs. Garret?" Charley asked. "They're all three dead," said Phillip. "Dead and buried and gone to hell, likely." "Why do you say that?" Charley asked. "They must have all been terrible sinners to have married our father," said Keenan.

The economic revolution of 1870 to 1970 was unique in human history, unrepeatable because so many of its achievements could happen only once.

When I die I shall then have my greatest grief and my greatest joy—my greatest grief that I have done so little for Jesus, and my greatest joy that Jesus has done so much for me.

The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. – 1 John 2:17 NIV

To Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. – Ephesians 3:21

A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. – John 14:19