Quotes about Legacy
I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is a tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
— Henry Ford
We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor; and no man can tell what becomes of his influence.
— Henry Ward Beecher
They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
— Henry Ward Beecher
At the table, where food and stories are passed from one person to another and one generation to another, is where each of us learns who we are, where we come from, what we can be, to whom we belong, and to what we are called.
— Leonard Sweet
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
— Les Brown
We should be ashamed to die until we've made some major contribution to human kind.
— Les Brown
"In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law,And argued each case with my wife;And the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw,Has lasted the rest of my life."
— Lewis Carroll