Quotes about Legacy
"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
He that is today a king tomorrow shall die.
— Anonymous
The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
— Anonymous