Quotes About Legacy

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.

Wherever you find something extraordinary, you'll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.

Imagine a history teacher making history.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.

We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and his teacher's contribution in his growth and development.

Old teachers never die, they just grade away.

Gene Kelly was a great dancer and I was lucky to be in 'Singin' in the Rain.' He was my teacher when I was 17 years old, when he was 37 years old. He taught me everything.

Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched.

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.