Quotes about Legacy
Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes.
— Billy Graham
Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.
— Stephen Jay Gould
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
— Margaret Mead
Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film [War of the Worlds]. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.
— Miranda Otto
The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.
— Steven Pressfield
The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
— Albert Einstein
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Wisdom married to immortal verse.
— William Wordsworth
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.
— Edmund Burke
Success is not success without a successor.
— Bishop TD Jakes
You can live in this world and make all the money you could ever dream of and be as beautiful as you want and be as educated as you please and accomplish whatever you want to, but if you die without accomplishing your purpose, you are a failure, a reject, and a fool.
— Bishop TD Jakes