Quotes About Legacy

Each house has its own signature, unknown to all except the grown children who go back to visit.

to talk at length about her mother and father, whom she has not seen since their deaths in the late 1800s. The greatest insight to emerge from those sessions was that Etna

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.

China built a thirteen-thousand-mile wall several centuries before Christ, and it's still working.

Sombras de antepasados olvidados, trad. de Miguel Muntaner Pascual y María del Mar Moya Tasis, Barcelona, Planeta, 1993.]

I felt joined to all the men and women across cultures down through the ages who'd done something useful with their hands, who'd made essential things from whatever was in front of them.

Books Our Mother Loved" (here she placed Indiana and The Devil's Pool, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights), "Books Our Father Loved" (here she placed The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories, Great Expectations, and Twelve

We put them together so we'd never forget our family feud.

President Bush

Ronald Reagan

Jews have lived side by side with Christians for nearly two millennia, fathered their religion, and for reasons that are no more substantial than those underlying the belief in the Resurrection have been the objects of murderous intolerance since the first centuries after Christ.

The two greatest men who ever lived—Jesus and Socrates—were both hoboes." It

These women were Jesus' great-grandmothers!

Then I said to myself, "Well, I'm getting pretty old, and we could probably work together. I'll let him be chairman and CEO, and I'll just enjoy myself, step back a little, and, of course, continue to visit stores." So I became chairman of the Executive Committee. Ron became chairman and CEO of the company. Ferold became president.

Some families sell their stock off a little at a time to live high, and then—boom—somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain. One of the real reasons I'm writing this book is so my grandchildren and great-grandchildren will read it years from now and know this: If you start any of that foolishness, I'll come back and haunt you. So don't even think about it.

Some families sell their stock off a little at a time to live high, and then—boom—somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain. One of the real reasons I'm writing this book is so my grandchildren and great-grandchildren will read it years from now and know this: If you start any of that foolishness, I'll come back and haunt you. So don't even think about

I've known Sam since his first store in Newport, Arkansas, and I believe that money is, in some respects, almost immaterial to him. What motivates the man is the desire to absolutely be on top of the heap. It is not money. Money drives him crazy now. His question to me at 6 A.M. not long ago was 'How do you inspire a grandchild to go to work if they know they'll never have a poor day in their life?' Ã¢â'¬Â DAVID

This was about twelve years ago, when I was just starting out in the business. There was this fearsome old pirate called Greenbeard. Killed hundreds of people, sank ships, robbed, plundered, pillaged, was generally unpleasant. You know the type.' 'Why was his beard green?' 'It wasn't. But the other colours were taken. (...)

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

How gloomy would be these mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he shall never die; that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on for ever. Those that lie here stretched before us, the wise and the powerful of ancient times, warn us to remember the shortness of our present state; they were, perhaps, snatched away while they were busy, like us, in the choice of life.