Quotes about Legacy
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
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
— Samuel Johnson
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.
— Samuel Johnson
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
— Aldous Huxley
As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!
— DL Moody
As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!
— DL Moody
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
— Francois Rabelais