Quotes About Legacy

Die Wurzel des Übels lag in der verworrenen und ruhelosen Natur des Menschen mit ihren edlen wie mit ihren bösen Zügen: dem Streben nach Freiheit, Ruhm oder Herrschaft. Weltherrschaft, Wohlstand und persönlicher Ehrgeiz hatten die Republik lange zuvor zugrunde gerichtet.

I never saw my granddad --he was excellent at hiding.

When your leadership appeals to only one generation, you are limiting your leadership in the future. Leading cross-generationally occurs when you are able to lead people in your own generation, the generation that came before you, and the generation that comes behind you. Connecting to all generations is what forward leaders will do.

We were very very lucky children! I pray that our future generations have as much fun, in whatever way! We should at least try to leave enough water, greenery, forests .. simple means of human sustenance .. if for no other reason but to repay Nature's debt on all of us..who enjoyed nature's charity to the hilt selfishly..when it was meant for ALL human beings including children of the future ..

Man's life is brief and transitory, Literature endures forever

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... and other people would be also free.

I am leaving this legacy to all of you ... to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die-- the dream of freedom and peace.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

The overseer beat him, tried to starve him, wouldn't let him have any shoes, treated him so badly that he had a very intense, passionate hatred for white people. My grandfather was the one who instilled in my mother and her sisters, and in their children, that you don't put up with bad treatment from anybody. It was passed down almost in our genes

Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors. It seems to me that yours is the more selfish

But you can forget him when you see the paintings with me. Enjoy them. They are part of our country's heritage. After all, the kings of France are only the custodians.

The more humans have mastered the world, the more it has taken on the taint of our own mortality. The world no longer seems deathless.

Advice to Young Journal Keepers . Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself all the good and interesting qualities you want and haven't got. If you should die young, what comfort would it be to your relatives to read the truth and have to say: It is not a pearl we have lost, but a swine?

It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.

Joseph Smith and the early Mormons had tried their best to murder all Indians in their path across the country, but in the end did not quite succeed. Arthur V. Watkins decided to use the power of his office to finish what the prophet had started. He didn't even have to get his hands bloody.

His father was so very old now that he slept most of the day. He was ninety-four. When Thomas thought of his father, peace stole across his chest and covered him like sunlight.

It was always what my father called the last leg of the journey. But we did not stop this time. We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just kept going.

My name is Lily Florabella Truax Beaupre, named after the woman who helped my mother, the woman who became my ghost.

Things started going wrong, as far as Zhaanat was concerned, when places everywhere were named for people—political figures, priests, explorers—and not for the real things that happened in these places—the dreaming, the eating, the death, the appearance of animals.

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

We are connected to the way-back people, here, in so many ways. Maybe a way-back person touched these shells. Maybe the little creatures in them disintegrated into the dirt. Maybe some tiny piece from that creatures is inside us now. We can't know these things.