Quotes about Legacy
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what you have given.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what you have given.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Architecture is life, or at least life itself taking form. . . the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or will ever be lived.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
— Frank Sinatra
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart.
— Frederick Buechner
We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.
— Frederick Buechner
A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.
— Brennan Manning
she said, Whether you are the younger son or the elder son, you have to realize that you are called to become the father.
— Henri Nouwen
If that is true, then the real question for me as I consider my own death is not: how much can I still accomplish before I die, or will I be a burden to others? No, the real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?
— Henri Nouwen