Quotes About Legacy

Granma and Granpa wanted me to know of the past, for "If ye don't know the past, then ye will not have a future. If ye don't know where your people have been, then ye won't know where your people are going.

We are, all of us, molded and re-molded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain nonetheless their work—a work that very likely they do not recognize, and which is never exactly what they intended.

and his peers are not many. You may like him or not, may attack him or sing his praises, but you cannot ignore him. He is of those that die hard. Be as fastidious as you will; make up your mind to recognize only those who are, without any manner of doubt, beyond and above all others; however few the names you keep, Rabelais' will always remain.

But only be good, dear, only be brave, only be kind and true always, and then you will never hurt any one, so long as you live, and you may help many, and the big world may be better because my little child was born. And that is best of all, Ceddie, — it is better than everything else, that the world should be a little better because a man has lived — even ever so little better, dearest.

And that is best of all, Ceddie,—it is better than everything else, that the world should be a little better because a man has lived—even ever so little better, dearest.

No one will remember you.

And my mother, whose radius of travel was short, tied the letters with ribbon and kept them in her desk, When you get the chance, she said to me, go.

Immortality, she'd always thought, is how you live on in the memories of those left.

I'm not done arguing with you, Mrs.Fletcher. I'm going to convince you yet. Well I reckon I got ten or twenty more years in me before I pass on, Granny told him. So feel free to take your time.

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.

Max asked, 'Why death, do you think?' 'The Iroquois say that the world was too full, so the men and women got together, separately, to find an answer. The men came up with the idea of not having any more children. But the women refused to give up having babies. Death was their answer.' Max nodded. He took a deep breath. It felt like he hadn't breathed like that in month, maybe years.

walk forwards in the radiance of the past

Sarah and Michael shared many happy years together. On their seventh anniversary, their prayers were answered with the birth of a son, Stephen. Stephen was followed by Luke, Lydia, and Esther.

I have lived out my mother's hope and pray I have given wings to my daughter's dreams.

Never underestimate the importance of the woman who rocks the cradle.

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

Negli anni più vulnerabili della giovinezza, mio padre mi diede un consiglio che non mi è più uscito di mente. <> mi disse <>

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

Yet, if the world were bettered by My death or story left untold, I would condemn myself to die For misdemeanours manifold: I bring no harm to young or old Alive or dead, in either case: A man so needy never rolled A mountain from its resting place.

Joe) Dimaggio was, in fact, mostly just a cold fish. Not even his brother Dom, who played outfield for the Red Sox..., seemed to care much for the Yankee Clipper. As someone best summed up Dimaggio: What kind of guy learns to love the most beautiful woman in the world only after she dies?

So what do you do while you're living? Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.

The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.