Quotes about Legacy

When I lost my wife I had a whole different concept of her life. She lived 21 years and people who knew her know it wasn't about the great things she did on this earth. It wasn't that she had money or had popularity, it was that she loved Jesus Christ more than anything else in this world. That was how she related to the world.

I honor Billy Graham. He is a category by himself.

I respect my father as a father, but I also respect him as an honorable chairman.

The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.

In one great case a man [Winston Churchill] who had been considered too brilliant and too reckless ever to be trusted with major office was the leader of the country [1941]. One of Rowe's last memories was of hearing him hissed by ex-servicemen from the public gallery of a law court because he had told an abrupt unpalatable truth about an old campaign. Now he had taught the country to love his unpalatable truths.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

So don't be dismayed when the wicked grow rich and their homes become ever more splendid. For when they die, they take nothing with them. Their wealth will not follow them into the grave.

I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding.

I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.