Quotes About Legacy

It was coming to him that perhaps all life as he knew it and vigorously practised it was futile; that heaven as portrayed by the Reverend Dr. John Jennison Drew was neither probable nor very interesting; that he hadn't much pleasure out of making money; that it was of doubtful worth to rear children merely that they might rear children who would rear children. What was it all about? What did he want?

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without a name.

The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses grey, Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry; For, well-a-day! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead; And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest.

A nation that forgets its past has no future

Og Sigurd som skjenket ravnen, Odins svane, blodig øl, mistet livet; landets herre ødela ham ved Oglo. Gullets øder, den uredde, livet lot i luende ild, da landkongene brøt sitt løfte, sveik i trygd Tys ætling.

Skelfir was a warrior king whose lineage is called the Skilfings, who hold sway in the eastern regions.

O genera?ie nu r?scump?r? pe cea dinaintea ei

ANTIGONE È più lungo il tempo che occorre piacere ai morti piuttosto che ai vivi. È là infatti che giacerò per sempre.»

You really are a soul caged in a human body. The body decays but the soul is everlasting. Leave a legacy you can be proud of. Make a difference in this world now while you still can. Even after you have left your soul shall remain. You will still know.

Call no man happy until he is dead.

Many bad men are rich, many good men are poor; but we shall not exchange wealth for honour, for money flits from man to man but honour abides forever.

I figure when I die, I can't take anything with me. So why not give?

We're on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what's more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?

It's easy to discount family. It's easy to take them for granted. But your family is your history. Your family is part of who you are.

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.

I will suffer nothing as great as death without glory.

Long, long ago; her thought was of that child By him begot, the son by whom the sire Was murdered and the mother left to breed With her own seed, a monstrous progeny. Then she bewailed the marriage bed whereon Poor wretch, she had conceived a double brood, Husband by husband, children by her child.

It's not through words but actions that I want to set the luster on my life.

It is the dead Not the living, who make the longest demands: We die for ever...

Keep your eyes on that last days, on your dying. Happiness and peace, they were not yours unless at death you can look back on your life and say I lived, I did not suffer.

for I owe a longer allegiance to the dead than to the living:

I owe more to the dead, with whom I will spend a much longer time, than I will ever owe to the living.