Quotes about Legacy
The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.
— JC Ryle
I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.
— John Adams
Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.
— John Bunyan
Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.
— Laurence Sterne
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
— Cicero
Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
— Samuel Johnson
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
— Theodore Roosevelt
It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.
— Tina Fey
The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
— Virginia Woolf
A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.
— Wendell Berry