Quotes about Legacy
You have started, whether you recognize that fact or not. We foolish mortals sometimes live through years of not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is our life. The day comes when we die.
- Edith Schaeffer
"They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance."
- Edmund Burke
"They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance."
- Edmund Burke
Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
- Edmund Burke
Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
- Edmund Burke
There are only two lasting bequests that we can hope to give our children — roots and wings.
- Anonymous
I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.
- Anonymous
Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
- Anonymous
No painter's brush, nor poet's pen In justice to her fame Has ever reached half high enough To write a mother's name.
- Anonymous
If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.
- Anonymous
Teachers touch the future.
- Anonymous
Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him.No one goes away and then comes back.
- Anonymous