Quotes About Legacy

Either hide this well or destroy it. It was the family motto.

If he had never created Wonder Woman, William Moulton Marston would be remembered for this experiment. He invented the lie detector test. A century on, it's still in use. It's also all over Wonder Woman.

The late Dominic Breckland, Voscount Stratfield, was returning to life in a sea of woman's underwear.

What was the point of becoming famous anyway? The Press dumped on you when you were alive, and pigeons when you were dead.

It is not surprising that Ibn Sina is a national icon in Iran today, and one can find countless schools and hospitals named after him in many countries around the world. Indeed, his legacy stretches even further, for there is an 'Avicenna' crater on the moon, and in 1980 every member country of Unesco celebrated the thousand-year anniversary of Ibn Sina's birth. As a philosopher he is referred to as the Aristotle of Islam; as a physician he is known as the Galen of Islam.

His (Islamic astronomer al-Farghani) legacy also endures through the Italian writer and poet Dante (1265-1321), who derived most of the astronomical knowledge he included in his DIVINE COMEDY from the writings of al-Farghani (whom he referred to by his Latin name, Alfraganus).

the site still radiated a powerful aura that whispered of past glories too ancient for me to comprehend.

Sometimes the bedsheet is a Confederate flag. I wonder how the Negro players feel about them. The worst part is that these things are hung by kids. Why the hell couldn't they let that stuff die with their grandfathers? These are not rebels who want something new. These are rebels who want to bring back the old. Doug

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

I have told you the story, and while I have been telling it, Robin - the biggest-hearted and the most faithful friend man ever had, has gone to the Happy Hunting Grounds, where I know I shall find him waiting for me.

Death does not tidy up or sweep as it departs. We all of us leave traces other than the ashes and the bones.

FEW PEOPLE in American history have been as consistently disliked as the Puritans.

The Fourth Wiseman delivered his gift and slipped away.

As years went by we would receive heartbreaking news that one had passed, then another: feisty Wyakin, fearless Kamots, gentle Matsi. Piyip, one of Kamots and Chemukh's three pups, was the last to die, in 2013. In one day 98,000 people shared his passing with us over the Internet. Emotional messages poured in. The Sawtooth Pack had touched the hearts of people around the world.

When it comes time to die, make sure all you got to do is die.

when I die the wind will still blow and the stars still shine, for the place I occupy on earth is no more permanent than the water I now make

Death steals everything except our stories.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.

Don't get stuck in the past. Celebrate the company's history (heritage), but focus primarily on the present and future (culture).

I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please.

Jump ahead to the end of your life. What are the three most important lessons you have learned and why are they so critical? • Think of someone that you deeply respect. Describe three qualities in this person that you most admire. • Who are you at your best? • What one-sentence inscription would you like to see on your tombstone that would capture who you really were in your life?