Quotes about Legacy

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

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling?

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.

When you get to heaven, will you look back on this earth and regret how much treasure you laid up here instead of sending it on ahead to heaven?

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

I will keep faith, Walter, she said steadily. I will work

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

The dead will only be dead if you stop remembering them.

I am grateful that my childhood was spent in a spot where there were many trees, trees of personality, planted and tended by hands long dead, bound up with everything of joy or sorrow that visited our lives. When I have lived with a tree for many years it seems to me like a beloved human companion.