Quotes about Legacy

One day, George Mbekela paid a visit to my mother. "Your son is a clever young fellow," he said. "He should go to school." My mother remained silent. No one in my family had ever attended school and my mother was unprepared for Mbekela's suggestion. But she did relay it to my father, who despite—or perhaps because of—his own lack of education immediately decided that his youngest son should go to school. The

And when we did come out [of prison], my children said, "We thought we had a father and one day he'd come back. But to our dismay, our father came back and he left us alone because he has now become the father of the nation.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

Someday he would write his memoirs, when his adventures had arranged themselves into a suitably attractive package.

What makes us most human is the possession of a unique and irreproducible story, that we take place over time and leave behind our traces.

My life's harvest is not the building material for anything, neither in my time, now, nor in any other, never.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or, to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

Could such a many-chambered edifice have stood a century and a half and not have had its passages of romance to bequeath their lingering legends to the after-time?... It was a great happiness to have been born in an old house haunted by such recollections, with harmless ghosts walking its corridors, with fields of waving grass and trees and singing birds...

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this ' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.