Quotes About Legacy

The real gift any person can give is a web of connective tissue. IF we love fiercely, our ancestors live among and speak to us through these incandescent filaments glowing from the warmth of memories. Loving fiercely is real-time legacy building. Maybe that's the best way to honor people.

The voices of my friends at the Little School grew stronger in my memory. By publishing these stories I feel those voices will not pass unheard.

There are two ways to surpass your parents. Ones is to achieve the thing they had hoped for. One is somewhat easier: just to live longer.

What if Icarus hadn't hurtled into the sea? What if he'd inherited his parent's inventive bent? What might have wrought?

And in a way, you could say that my father's end was my beginning...Or more precisely, that the end of his lie coincided with the beginning of my truth

History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles.

The King is dead. Long live the King! We must all offer allegiance to our new sovereign lord, King Edward the Fifth.

All he had wanted, for most of his long reign, was a son to succeed him. For that he had married six times. Would he be proud to see her now, seated in this chair of estate he had once occupied? She hoped so. She

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain

At Sanford's 1998 funeral in Duke Chapel, childhood friend Dickson Philips eulogized this Eagle from Troop 20 in the town of Laurinburg. To the assembled crowd, he eloquently said, "[Terry Sanford] took an oath when he was twelve years old and kept it. It started out, 'On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country,' and included such things as 'help other people at all times.' He believed it: He was the eternal Boy Scout.

And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies hold the memories of those who came before us, whether it is the features we inherit or a disposition that is etched into our soul.

I am a Jewish mother. My dying words will be, "Put a jumper on

Just consider how terrible the day of your death will be. Others will go on speaking, and you will not be able to argue back.

We make Rizal in our own image and likeness. Our image of Rizal is usually formed or deformed in school through numerous biographies with flattering titles.

Rizal's greatest misfortune is being national hero of the Philippines.

History is part of our birthright. We must claim it back and make it transform our lives

It is one thing to know the past, but knowing what to do with it is something else. Our aim should be to be liberated from our history.

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

The man was Halpin Frayser.  He lived in St. Helena, but where he lives now is uncertain, for he is dead. 

So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth!

In many instances nothing marked the spot where lay the vestiges of some poor mortal-who, leaving a large circle of sorrowing friends, had been left by them in turn-except a depression in the earth, more lasting than that in the spirits of the mourners.

HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.