Quotes about Legacy
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.
— Samuel Johnson
A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization.
— John Malkovich
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
— Joseph Addison
No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.
— CS Lewis
For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.
— George Lucas
I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
— Hans Kung
Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.
— Harry S. Truman
Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.
— Henry David Thoreau
In your love you see only your two selves in the world, but in marriage you are a link in the chain of the generations
— Mark Driscoll
If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.
— Arthur Conan Doyle