Quotes About Legacy

Many people seek popularity and want everyone to know their name. It's not important for everyone to know your name, it's important that some of the people you know don't forget your name.

As we were told about others, so others will be told about us. that is "HISTORY". and the most painfull thing about it is that, it does not repeat itself. it comes onece in life and never again.

Author Elizabeth Stone once said, "Making a decision to have a child—it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

I was born with the horse and buggy. I die with the space shuttle. What kind of thing is that?" His eyes twinkled. "I live the good life!

said, "Making a decision to have a child—it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." Veteran

I've] never written a thing without a record on.

Preserving the memories so others will remember... â"¢

The concept of using less of anything is about as popular in the contemporary industrial world as garlic aioli at a convention of vampires. Nobody wants to be reminded that using less, so that our grandchildren would have enough, was the road we didn't take at the end of the seventies. Still, the road we did take was always destined to be a dead end, and, as we move deeper into the twenty-first century, the end of that road is starting to come into sight.

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What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in pilèd stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?

As a generation, as a society, we never talk about the shit that went down with the fear of nuclear war. Not really. We'll laugh about how scary The Day After was, but we never recognize that we were raised in despair and probably handed it down to our kids and to later versions of ourselves.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it.

The historian has been the hearth at which the soul of the country has been kept alive.

Each person leaves a legacy--a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole. But do not despair, for despair is a despicable and bourgeois affectation; we must not allow it. As for what happens next, well, as the Cuban poet Regino Pedroso once said, "como forjamos el hierro, forjaremos días nuevos": as we hammer out iron, we shall hammer out new days.

Each person leaves a legacy -- a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole.

I have lived. Now there must be others.

Aging changes your relationship with history.

None of us may ever know the true effects of our prayers this side of death. But we do know this: History belongs to the intercessors.

A career may end with retirement and lots of "toys." A calling isn't over until the day you die.