Quotes About Legacy

Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

Don't take anything for granite. That's what tombstones are made of.

A woman always has her children, but a man is what he does. Where's the meaning in a life like that?

Photography threatens because photography implies notice and permanent record.

"Dead upon the field of glory," Hero fit for song and story.

Erik Satie died on July 1, 1925; his last words were 'Ah, the cows...

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. "Ode of Remembrance" Lawrence Binyon

...the best secretary of state since Dean Acheson. I say that because he and Bush 41 had an incredibly tempestuous period in history, and they navigated through it with great success.

Sheik Muftah Culture

We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future

Architecture is the work of nations.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

My father was a very great man. I will never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it.

Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh?

A Connally! Always remember that I raised you to be a Connally!

Do not mourn me, friends I fall as a shooting star Into the next life

our homes, communities, country, and on our planet. Instead of forever being blamed for the excesses that put our planet on the destructive path, perhaps we can be viewed as the generation that rose above comfort and decadence to turn things around.