Quotes about Legacy

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Those into whose lives you are born do not pass away.

So what is it, he thought, that binds me to this spot of earth as if to a home I cannot leave? We must all leave home, after all, we must all leave our mothers. Or am I such a child, such a child from such a line of children, that none of us can leave, but have to come back to die here with our heads upon our mothers' laps, I upon hers, she upon her mother's, and so back and back, generation upon generation?

The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.