Quotes About Legacy

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Now hear a new truth. The Great Mother Herself will be forced to hide from those who are coming. She will seem to disappear while they grow strong, but someday She will return. Although our children and their children, perhaps to the thousandth generation, must live in the new world that has forgotten Her, they must never forget. She will return.

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president' s spouse. I wish him well

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race.

For what remains veiled in one era comes back, as a ghost, to haunt us in another.

All women become like their mothers.

You must do something to make the world more beautiful - Ms. Rumphius

Tombstones don´t list jobs, they list relationships-mother, wife, daughter.

Turning off the machines is a technicality. Her mind is already gone. Her spirit lingers, but it's tied to her bed because we are. If we want it free, we have to do this for her." Molly heard an echo of her father and saw no inconsistency. Yes, Robin's soul was in heaven. Her spirit, though, was different. It was the part of her that lived on in everyone she left behind. In that regard, what Kathryn said made sense.

You'll always be with me, Mom. Kind of like Jordan's perennials. Every year, something'll bloom in my life to remind me of you. It'll always be different, never the same, but it'll be good. Love lasts.

When we lose someone we love, we can either die with them or live on to celebrate their life.

My mom used to argue that tombstones don't list jobs. They list relationships—daughter, wife, mother. Forget everything else right now; I need to recoup the wife part.

When we lose someone we love, we can either die with them or live on to celebrate their life. I'm tired of focusing on what we lost. I want to focus on what we had.

absolutely no factual information whatsoever." JW would admit that his newly discovered grandson, Morgan Holbrook,

Mothers and daughters share a special bond." "I never knew how special until it wasn't there anymore. I'm twenty-seven, and when something good or bad happens in my life, I still wonder what my mom would think. I've lived more of my life without her than with her, but it still matters.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, You have to be in their lives today.

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.

You can count on Social Security, and with every fiber of my being, I will make sure it is there not only for my generation, but for my children's generation and for my grandchild's generation.

Like this cemetery, she was old and dry and what she had once been or even later represented had begun to slip from memory.