Quotes About Legacy

Jimmy: One day, when I'm no longer spending my days running a sweet-stall, I may write a book about us all. It's all here. (slapping his forehead) Written in flames a mile high. And it won't be recollected in tranquillity either, picking daffodils with Auntie Wordsworth. It'll be recollected in fire, and blood. My blood.

History is a story we learn, add on our own chapter, and then pass to the next generation.

The heirs of Jefferson and Madison would be the Democratic-Republicans, the heirs of Hamilton and Adams would be the Federalists. But the heirs of Washington would be all Americans.

My original fear that my daughter was going to die before BettyJane and myself has now been replaced with the fear that she is going to outlive us.

We live in a 'two-hundred-year present'.

our place is known by the songs that give birth, name us and bring us home.

And death, for those who live on, is the end of a chapter rather than the end of a book, and although the dead may have no more part to play as characters, their influence may continue right though the story.

You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants.

the first responsibility of a human being is to be a better ancestor.

There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. —Victor Hugo

One night a father overheard his son pray: "Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is." Later that night, the father prayed, "Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be." —Anonymous

You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

Was that a tragedy? Two lives, driven by one great passion, namely, to be spent in unheralded service to the perishing poor for the glory of Jesus Christ—even two decades after most of their American counterparts had retired to throw away their lives on trifles. No, that is not a tragedy. That is a glory. These lives were not wasted. And these lives were not lost. "Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it" (Mark 8:35).

You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

Expose yourself to Bible-saturated people, both the living and the dead. Their lives and their words are a great help to our joy.

You will leave all your material wealth behind, but a wealth of knowledge goes with you.

Come to the end of your life—your one and only precious, God-given life—and let the last great work of your life, before you give an account to your Creator, be this: playing softball and collecting shells. Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: "Look, Lord. See my shells." That is a tragedy.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

Multiply over forty million abortions worldwide each year by the years since 1973. Over a billion babies in the world have died, in part, because of America's 'leadership' in promoting abortion globally. What a gruesome legacy. Who else better deserves the title of 'Mother of Abominations'?

not, let it be always known that the blood of our brothers and sisters….and grandchildren….will be on the hands of America's President. On America itself.