Quotes about Legacy

In the time of your life, live---so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for andy life your life touches.

The person of a man may leave—or be taken away—but the best part of a good man stays. It stays forever. Love is immortal and makes all things immortal. But hate dies every minute.

Projects undreamed of by past generations will absorb our immediate descendants, comforts, activities, amenities, pleasures will crowd upon them, but their hearts will ache and their lives will be barren, if they have not a vision above material things.

To Admiral Cunningham it was against all tradition to abandon the Army in such a crisis. He declared, "It takes the Navy three years to build a new ship. It will take three hundred years to build a new tradition.

It is instructive (and sometimes properly humbling) to give thought to that great stream of tradition within which we stand, rather than fondly imagine we are the first generation to face the challenge the Old Testament sets before us as Christians.

Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.

I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named after him.

Everything we value in this life is inseparably connected with the future.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

Life is brief, art is long.

I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of the veil.

The best advice I can give you is this. Church tradition - especially when they do not run counter to the Faith - are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down.