Quotes About Legacy

Mind you do your dying right! Most of us only get one chance at it.

pereunt et imputantur mors ianua vitae

Still, the first duty of a knight is to make the realm shine in the dreams of small boys—or where else will the knights of tomorrow arise, and what will become of the realm?

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.

quotation from Maya Angelou emblazoned across the side of the building: "History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

How, what, and who we celebrate reflects what and who we value, and how we celebrate our past reflects ultimately who we take ourselves to be today.

thirty years after Baldwin's death we are still wrestling with the fact that so many Americans continue to hold the view that ours is a white nation.

Power mattered. But in the end, for Jimmy, what kind of human beings we aspired to be mattered more. And I am convinced he was absolutely right, especially for our after times.

It was a place that denied the contradiction between its commitments to freedom and democracy and its practice of slavery and white supremacy.

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

We are eager to give birth to new ministries, but are lousy at letting old ones die.

Our parents are the root of our body.

And yet the cares are many and the hours of toil are few; There is not time enough on earth for all I'd like to do; But, having lived and having toiled, I'd like the world to find Some little touch of beauty that my soul had left behind.

I want to be famous but unknown!

Out of me unworthy and unknownThe vibrations of deathless music.

My name used to be in the papers daily As having dined somewhere, Or traveled somewhere, Or rented a house in Paris, Where I entertained the nobility. I was forever eating or traveling, Or taking the cure at Baden-Baden. Now I am here to do honor To Spoon River, here beside the family whence I sprang. No one cares now where I dined, Or lived, or whom I entertained, Or how often I took the cure at Baden-Baden!

People asked us, "Do you read history?" "No," I answered. "We are too busy making it.

Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.

edgar rice burroughs

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

We should pass on to future generations the opportunity to enjoy these places and not have them transformed into ordinary places

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.

What counted was how you behaved while death let you live, and how you met death when life released you.