Quotes about Legacy

The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

Death is not the end, but a more glorified existence.

Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.

The way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

Ungrace does its work quietly and lethally, like a poisonous, undetectable gas. A father dies unforgiven. A mother who once carried a child in her own body does not speak to that child for half its life. The toxin steals on, from generation to generation.

Whatever you may believe about it, the birth of Jesus was so important that it split history into two parts. Everything that has ever happened on this planet falls into a category of before Christ or after Christ.

Death becomes the expression of everything you are, and you can bring to it only what you have brought to your life," said Roemer after the filming.

Death becomes the expression of everything you are, and you can bring to it only what you have brought to your life," said Roemer after the filming.

Though forgiveness is never easy, and may take generations, what else can break the chains that enslave people to their historical past?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day