Quotes about Legacy
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
— GK Chesterton
Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
— GK Chesterton
Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.
— Publilius Syrus
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
— Publilius Syrus
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
— Publilius Syrus
Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!
— Henry David Thoreau
It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.
— Charles Spurgeon
I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.
— Andrew Carnegie
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
— Billy Graham
I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.
— Bill Gates