Quotes about Legacy
The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
— William James
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
— Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
— Henry David Thoreau
I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is a tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
— Henry Ford
We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor; and no man can tell what becomes of his influence.
— Henry Ward Beecher
They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
— Henry Ward Beecher