Quotes about Legacy
We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.
— Billy Graham
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
— George Washington
All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
— Abraham Lincoln
It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators.
— Martin Luther
Therefore nothing were better for us than soon to be conveyed to the last dance, and covered with shovels.
— Martin Luther
Therefore nothing were better for us than soon to be conveyed to the last dance, and covered with shovels.
— Martin Luther
Therefore nothing were better for us than soon to be conveyed to the last dance, and covered with shovels.
— Martin Luther
What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief purpose in life, namely, the care of the young?
— Martin Luther
If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.
— Martin Luther
Man soll bauen als wollt man ewig leben, und also leben als sollt man morgen sterben. One should build as if one would live forever, and live as though one would die tomorrow.
— Martin Luther
Simeon was the ancestor of Judas Iscariot.
— Martin Luther
Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. . . . But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.