Quotes About Legacy

Las personas buenas y muy queridas son las que mueren siempre.

For love is the only thing we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

O amor é a única coisa que podemos levar conosco quando partimos, e isso torna o fim muito tranquilo.

Let the music stop, the lights die out, and the curtain fall for ever on the March family

Many men can be what the world calls great: very few men are what God calls good. This is the harder task to choose, yet the only success that satisfies, the only honor that outlives death.

I want to do something splendid … Something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead … I think I shall write books.

Mine first -mine last - mine even in the grave! - Tempest

Who are your heroes? asked Jo. Grandfather and Napoleon.

Mine first—mine last— mine even in the grave!

I want to do something splendid... Something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead... I think I shall write books.

If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

Once we were a people who left no tracks. Now we are different. We print ourselves deeply on the earth. We build roads. The ruts and skids of our wheels bite deep and the bush recedes. We make foundations for our buildings and sink wells beside our houses. Our shoes are hard and where we go it is easy to follow. I have left my own tracks, too. I have left behind these words.

What I am doing now is for the future, though it may seem small, or trivial, or boring, to you.

The Morgans were never litigious.

Never resigned to his father's desertion and always fearing press exposure of his bigamy, John was still trying to lure his seventy-one-year-old father back to Eliza and away from the sinful second marriage.

William Avery Rockefeller possessed the dash and virility that every young boy dreams of in a father.

With one check, Rockefeller might have relieved their anxiety forever, but he wanted to avert excessive dependence and keep alive a creative ambiguity about his intentions.

He was also a terrific showman, a trait he inherited from his father.

Rockefeller was now self-supporting and entirely free of his father

For instance, in 1886, he pledged $30,000 to Morehouse, hoping that it would prove the catalyst for a $150,000 fund drive.

Faced with his son's dizzying wealth, he must have sometimes pondered whether to throw off his disguise and resume his Rockefeller identity.

Rockefeller's sisters played a limited role in his adult life.

Rockefeller, who, along with his son, reserved the right to designate the use of two-thirds of the money given.

He was also accused of mixing the lawless and the honorable, of ignoring ethical niceties, in a manner reminiscent of his father.