Quotes about Legacy

Could such a many-chambered edifice have stood a century and a half and not have had its passages of romance to bequeath their lingering legends to the after-time?... It was a great happiness to have been born in an old house haunted by such recollections, with harmless ghosts walking its corridors, with fields of waving grass and trees and singing birds...

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this ' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.

Stranger, tell the Spartans that we behaved as they would wish us to, and are buried here.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

regardless of how small the visible effects of our lives may appear to be. We have nothing to do with the outflow

One of the best pieces of advice I've ever received was from my grandmother, who said, "A woman always has to keep something of her own, even if it's a jar of quarters." The other was from my agent, another wise woman, who told me twenty years ago: "You don't have to tell everything you know.

Europe got over the loss of its colonies much more quickly than the colonies got over their loss of Europe.

The path to significance is bigger than the individual.

God didn't give you your children to build your reputation but to publicly proclaim his.