Quotes about Legacy
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.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
— Albert Schweitzer
I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
— Madeleine Albright
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.
— Charles Spurgeon
In the end, I still have the same hope as my father - that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the last word.
— Bernice King
Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
— Joe Biden
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.
— Gordon Hinckley
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
To every man his little cross. (He sighs.) Till he dies. (Afterthought.) And is forgotten.
— Samuel Beckett
To every man his little cross. (He sighs.) Till he dies. (Afterthought.) And is forgotten.
— Samuel Beckett
Let me say before I go any further that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honoured name.
— Samuel Beckett