Quotes about Legacy

That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

In 1847, a certain Count Leopold Ferri died at Padua, leaving a library entirely composed of works written by women, in various languages, and this library amounted to nearly 32,000 volumes.

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.

I cannot bear to think that any one should die and leave no love behind

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was amazed at the size. Would I ever be big enough to fill his shoes? Could I ever grow into the man my father was? I wondered.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

In the end, I still have the same hope as my father - that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the last word.

Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.

At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.