Quotes about Legacy
We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
— Alice Walker
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.
— John Maxwell
There is no success without a successor.
— John Maxwell
Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.
— John Maxwell
Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?
— Arianna Huffington
Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
— Alice Hoffman
Remember what I've told you. Remember me.
— Alice Hoffman
My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.
— Alice Hoffman
You cannot unwrite a death that has been written.
— Alice Hoffman
Jet gave the blessing from the book of poems she had given her aunt.
— Alice Hoffman
Lately, she's been wondering if perhaps when the living become the dead they leave an empty space behind, a hollow no one else can fill.
— Alice Hoffman