Quotes About Legacy

In some manner with which we still haven't even begun to wrestle, we have created a world in which forgiveness has become almost impossible, in which the sins of the father can certainly be visited upon the son.

The millions and millions of corpses, the wasted lives that communism left behind as testament to its main accomplishment, were enough to give any sane believer pause. There were some true believers left, like the British historian Eric Hobsbawm, but the world generally reacted to them with the incredulity deserved for a person standing on top of a pile of corpses promising that with just a few more deaths he could make the whole thing right.

Here is an inheritance of thought and culture and philosophy and religion which has nurtured people for thousands of years and may well fulfil you too.

People need history in order to know themselves, to build a sense of identity and pride, continuity, community, and hope for the future.

was there because I was a Wilson. My family membership was never more secure than when I was sitting there, disciplined.

if we do not tell our stories faithfully, they will gradually change over time until they become quite unrecognizable. With a story like this—one that has in the minds of many supplanted the story of the Christ child—we have to remember that St. Nicholas probably would have slugged somebody over it.

We never know how far reaching something we may think, say, or do today will effect the lives of millions tomorrow.

They cannot make history who forget history.

On the Threshold is beautiful and very touching and a moving tribute to my friend, colleague and mentor Irvin Yalom.

Be phenomenal or be forgotten.

I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

Fame to be sweet must resound in the ears of those we love, in the atmosphere of the land that will guard our ashes. Fame should hover over our tomb to warm with its heat the chill of death, so that we may not be completely reduced to nothingness, that something of us may survive! (Noli Me Tangere)

Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.

the way we honor the dead is by living well...if we spend our lives never allowing ourselves to be hapy we are wasting what they lost." my hubby & I just this on fb last week & LOVE it!! thankx :)

Whatever your life' work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes

As we mature and develop awareness to match our potential, our ability to enjoy full health is realized. As we enjoy this fruit, we sow the seeds of greatness in our children.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

When at last we are sure You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms Must be properly filled So that you and your heirs May be properly billed.

All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

So what I tend to do is to think of today as the past. Its funny when you comin in first but you hope that you last.. You just hope that it lasts.

Im a staple in my city, you can never ruin me.

Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm.

Rest in peace to Heath Ledger but Im no joker.