Quotes about Legacy

All good human work remembers its history.

Understand this until you have a boy of your own, but listen close. The sins of the father are carried down to the son. There's nothing you can do to stop what's passed to you. You are going to wrestle with it until the day you die, whether you like it or not. The only choice is whether or not you pass them to your son. Stopping it is a choice you make.

But good hymns? They live past the people who wrote them. Hymns never die.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers...

There has been war since the beginning of time and we are no smarter than the people that have gone before us. There is apt to be some more war.

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.

Criminal Minds, Miasma: "All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born."

It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.

Thought for the day. Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.