Quotes about Legacy

What constitutes a life well spent, anyway? Love and admiration from your fellow men is all that any one can ask.

Each day of our lives we make deposits into the memory banks of our children.

We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected.

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital chamber their children.

There are some women who are a good time and there are some women who are a good legacy.

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.