Quotes About Legacy

A tradition that we'll never let go. A tradition that I probably will never let go of either, simply because like religion, culture is nailed into you so deep you can't escape it. No matter how far you run.

They travel in packs and trust each other with all their hearts. It doesn't mean they have the capacity to love more than us, but they do know how to trust. It's because of their queen and her father before her and his father before him. The trust of a people comes from the goodness of their leaders.

You can't hate what you're part of. What you are. I resent it most of the time, curse it always, but it'll be part of me till the day I die.

We are all children until our fathers die.

You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.

Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.

My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked.

We are what stands between the living and the dead. Being an Undertaker is an honor, son.

WWII plaque that resides on an island in the pacific: "When you go home Tell them of us, and say For your tomorrow, We gave our today.

We will never reach the world for Christ in our generation if we simply follow in the groove worn for us by our predecessors.

Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek: We write in sand, our language grows And like the tide, our work o'erflows.

Before the fifteenth century was out, William Caxton had printed two editions of The Canterbury Tales and they have never been out of print since. They have been enjoyed, imitated, copied, re-translated, put on stage, screen and radio, and generations have rightly regarded Chaucer as the father and founding genius of English literature.

There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them.

The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.

I have lived this life, and no matter what others may decide about it, I must claim each decision as mine. I have caused harm, failed in the expectations and obligations of love. I have loved well. What I do each day is carried within me until I die.

I began to think that some of us are the designated rememberers. Why do we remember? I don't know. But I think that's why memoir interests us—because we're the ones who pass the stories. --Pat Conroy

Historical impulse. "The desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity." Political

Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.

I sometimes think about old tombs and weeds That interwreathe among the bones of kings With cold and poisonous berry and black flower: Or ruminate upon the skulls of steeds Frailer than shells and on those luminous wings - The shoulder blades of Princes of fled power, Which now the unrecorded sandstorms grind Into so wraith-like a translucency Of tissue-thin and aqueous bone - A Reverie of Bone

Audubon considered it a bad day if he didn't shoot a hundred birds. "It's amazing that his name has become synonymous with conservation.

Ono Å¡to nije zapisano, i ne postoji; bilo pa umrlo.

The prophets of every age come from the hands of attentive mothers

O tempo Ä— o eterno construtor de antigamente.

After us, there was no more world to receive anyone.