Quotes about Legacy

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met 'em at the boat.

You have been speaking about William Carey. When I am gone, say nothing about William Carey-speak only about Willam Carey's Saviour.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills

Words are the only things that last for ever.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar…. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

I pray that we might not outlive our usefulness.

Only one life "Twill soon be past Only what's done For Christ will last".