Quotes about Legacy
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
— Samuel Johnson
There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.
— Madeleine Albright
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
— Wendell Berry
Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.
— Frederick Buechner
The life thatI touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
— Frederick Buechner
The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than the day a boy is born to a couple of hick Jews.
— Frederick Buechner
They were great in their day and generation.
— Frederick Douglass
She stands — she sits — she staggers — she falls — she groans — she dies — and there are none of her children or grandchildren present, to wipe from her wrinkled brow the cold sweat of death, or to place beneath the sod her fallen remains.
— Frederick Douglass
I esteem myself a good, persistent hater of injustice and oppression, but my resentment ceases when they cease, and I have no heart to visit upon children the sins of their fathers.
— Frederick Douglass
Whenever a child is given to parents, a crown is made for it in Heaven; and woe to those parents if that child is not reared with a sense of responsibility to acquire that crown!
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
All what I aimed for, except the Olympic medal, I achieved. That's why I want to start the Usha School of Athletics. I missed an Olympic medal, now I want to ensure that one of my students wins one!
— P. T. Usha