Quotes about Legacy
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
When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."
— Martin Luther
I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.
— Theodore Roosevelt
He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
— Edmund Burke
Play the man, Mastre Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
— Hugh Latimer
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
— Sheryl Sandberg
He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible.
— Shimon Peres
What love we've given, we'll have forever.
— Leo Buscaglia
Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.
— Cicero