Quotes about Legacy
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.
— George Eliot
It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
— Anonymous
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness, for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.
— George Bernard Shaw
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
— John Quincy Adams
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
— Thomas Jefferson
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
— George Eliot
Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
— St. Isidore of Seville
Languages are the pedigree of nations.
— Samuel Johnson
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
— Abraham Lincoln