Quotes about Legacy

our sons must become men — such men as we hope our daughters, born and unborn, will be pleased to live among. Our sons will not grow into women. Their way is more difficult than that of our daughters, for they must move away from us, without us. Hopefully ours have what they have learned from us, and a howness to forge into their own image.

They convinced me meaning they had dragged her 4'10 Black Woman's frame over the hot coals of four centuries of white male approval until she let go the first real power she ever had and lined her own womb with cement to make a graveyard for our children.

I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing.

and he said her name to fill the space of five years.

Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.

A tendency that's run through your family for generations can stop with you. You're a transition person — a link between past and future. And your own change can affect many, many lives downstream.

One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, How much did he leave? His friend responded, He left it all.

When you are faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realise that there are lots of things you want to do before your life is over.

about Your kingdom and Your will in my heart, my home, and my generation. In Jesus' name, I pray, amen.

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, that we neglect to give them what we DID have growing up.

You only get one shot in this life. So let me do all the good I can for my fellow man. For I will not pass this way again.

When we are gone, the only essential thing we will leave behind are the memories we create in the lives of those we have touched and those we love.