Quotes about Legacy

when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again, for that library where every book shall lie open to one another;

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own.

We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.

You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back.

We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

The great thing about the dead, they make space.