Quotes about Legacy
I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the blessings they have inherited.
- Franklin Pierce
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
- Maya Angelou
The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!
- David Livingstone
My biggest dream is that my words will inspire heart, hope and personal responsibility in people around the globe long after my feet in these shoes aren't walking the planet.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My biggest dream is that my words will inspire heart, hope and personal responsibility in people around the globe long after my feet in these shoes aren't walking the planet.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.
- Toni Morrison
The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
- Alice Walker
A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.
- Abraham Lincoln
All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.
- Khalil Gibran
There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.
- George W. Bush