Quotes About Legacy

I have come here and will lead this passage to the farthest ends of the world " ~ Gol D. Roger ~

But death is what completes a man. —Kaido

These things cannot be stopped: An inherited strength of will. One's dreams. The ebb and flow of the ages. As long as people hunger for freedom, these things will exist. — Gold Roger King of the Pirates

I've set myself to become the king of the pirates... And if I die trying... then at least I tried!

Reputasi seseorang tak pernah ditetapkan sebelum dia mati." (Araki Murashige - Taiko)

Aku berpegang pada satu hal ini: tubuhku boleh menjadi debu, tapi aku akan tetap hidup.

The times are rushing ahead. This has already caused damage, and there is still more destruction to come. One day, human civilization... will be a thing of the past.

The moon of thirty years ago has gone down long since and the people of thirty years ago are dead but the story of thirty years ago is not yet ended—can have no ending.

The written word for the trouble is two women beneath one rooftree, and I greatly fear that the wise man who invented writing had knowledge that cost him dear. Perhaps he, too, had a daughter-in-law.

I write because I would like to be used for years after my death.

He died January twenty-eighth, the seventh day from the time that he took to his bed, at nine o'clock in the morning, after partaking of the holy communion, in the seventy-second year of his age and the forty-seventh of his reign [Jan 28].

When Gandhi was observing his day of silence, someone once asked him for a message. He just wrote, "My life is my message.

Enlighten your life with history.

Watch for the phrase that was almost your "middle name"—the one they would put on your gravestone if given half a chance.

The French are obsessed with history, partly out of a genuine affinity for the past, partly from a desire to cling to lost glory.

Libraries are forever.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life.

Professor [John] Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the door of the scientist and call, 'Arise, Sir: it is near seven o'clock and you have great work to do today.

The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.

We have successfully grappled with some giant evils and have slain them, but others to meet and conquer them is a question still. It depends upon the boys if today to answer that. It is upon their shoulders that the burden will fall, and they are ones to whom the fight is coming.

What had they been thinking of, those people then? They had left their descendants almost no water and great mountains of uranium. What kind of inheritance was that? How did they think we were going to survive?

Her legacy is that of a woman who refused to conform to the misogynistic traditions of her time.