Quotes about Legacy
In the words of the Scottish proverb, 'Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
— David Ogilvy
For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.
— Davis Bunn
O'Captain, My Captain.
— Dead Poets Society
I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.
— Sojourner Truth
Yet some there be that by due steps aspire to lay their just hands on that golden key that opens the palace of Eternity. To such my errand is.
— John Milton
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.
— AW Tozer
Carve your name on hearts, not on marble
— Charles Spurgeon
All writers would like to be overrated in their own lifetimes.
— Jay Parini
Napoleon is said to have had hopes of August 15th. There is an irresistible attraction in the idea of linking one's name with a regularly recurring date.
— Elias Canetti
I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
— Elie Wiesel
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
— Elie Wiesel
If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?
— Elie Wiesel