Quotes about Legacy

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

The Lord specifically told me that He has appointed and anointed Daniel Kolenda as my successor.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. -Is it so bad, then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood...

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

As no air-pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its owns books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.