Quotes about Legacy
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
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
— Hilaire Belloc
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
— Hilaire Belloc
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
— Hilaire Belloc
O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again...
— George Eliot
Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Why has he taken this job?... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know of honour and dishonour anyway? For himself then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.
— JM Coetzee
The planting is reserved for those who come after us and have the foresight to bring seed. I only clear the ground for them. Clearing ground an piling stones is little enough, but it is better than sitting in idleness.
— JM Coetzee
When death cuts all other links, there remains the name. Baptism: the union of a soul with a name, the name it will carry into eternity.
— JM Coetzee
Those into whose lives you are born do not pass away.
— JM Coetzee