Quotes about Legacy
My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
— Zig Ziglar
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.
— Ernest Hemingway
To be a mother is the greatest vocation in the world. No being has a position of such great power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her is necessarily committed the making of the nation's citizens.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.
— Gordon Hinckley
The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.
— Jon Bon Jovi
My daughter has no interest in succeeding me in the business. She is going towards social entrepreneurship, an area she is interested in.
— Shiv Nadar
I am at the top of Toyota and drive cars myself. I was also born with this name.
— Akio Toyoda
Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.
— William Saroyan
A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
— Charles Dickens
And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
— Cicero