Quotes about Legacy

It matters a great deal that I come from a Jewish background.

We have four grown children and five grandchildren... so far! So, as you can imagine, family is extremely important to us.

Guns in America have an atavistic force. Possessing them, or the act of not possessing them, is an identity that seems to pass from father to son.

I am in my own hall of fame, that's all that matters.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.

The young ones have always a claim on the old to help them forward.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are."   Bulstrode's

how was a man to be explained unless you at least knew somebody who knew his father and mother?

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