Quotes About Legacy

Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the books have never come up to what was in my head, and that the rewards—the comfortable income, the public notice, the literary prizes, and the honorary degrees—have been tinsel, not what a grown man should be content with.

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

Leave a mark on the world. Instead, the world has left marks on us. We got older. Life chastened us so that now we lie waiting to die, or walk on canes, or sit on porches where once the young juices flowed strongly, and feel old and inept and confused.

When we're young, we take so casually every sacrifice offered by the old.

You can't be close to the mortality of friends without being brought to think of your own.

You hear what the dean said about Jesus Christ? 'Sure He's a good teacher, but what's He published?

If I spoke to Rodman in those terms, saying that my grandparents' lives seem to me organic and ours what? hydroponic? he would ask in derision what I meant. Define my terms. How do you measure the organic residue of a man or a generation? This is all metaphor. If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist.

For history is a pontoon bridge. Every man walks and works at its building end, and has come as far as he has over the pontoons laid by others he may never have heard of.

You are at once a lasting presence and an unhealed wound.

Seen in either geological or biological terms, we don't warrant attention as individuals. One of us doesn't differ that much from another, each generation repeats its parents, the works we build to outlast us are not much more enduring than anthills, and much less so than coral reefs.

sitting in Grandmother's old wicker chair and littering my porch with her foolish young life.

Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the making, to be buried and eventually exposed again for the puzzlement of creatures of later eras. Seen in either geological or biological terms, we don't warrant attention as individuals. One

Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill;

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

The Real War Will Never Get in the Books. And so good-bye to the war.

...the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.

You will carry into eternity the product of your investment in this life. Life is too short and the stakes too high to live mediocre lives.

Death is at work in every person. It is the natural progression of life. Paul realized this and elected to participate willingly by purposely putting himself to death by spending his life on others.

God makes you an incredible offer:You can give your life in exchange for the same thing for which Jesus spent His life – people. People last forever. For good or bad, they are eternal. Spend your life helping them prepare for their eternity. Don't give your life to mediocrity. Life is too short and the issues of eternity too significant.

A]n ancient and ever-altering constitution is like an old man who still wears with attached fondness clothes in the fashion of his youth: what you see of him is the same; what you do not see is wholly altered.

There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.