Quotes about Legacy
Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.
— William Saroyan
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson
— Victor Hugo
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
— Elbert Hubbard
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
— John Donne
Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
— Henry David Thoreau
All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.
— Thomas Jefferson
A person's destiny often ends before his death.
— Milan Kundera
With a beaming face celebrate the joyful day and rest not therein. For no one can take away his goods with him. Yea, no one returns again, who has gone hence.
— Anonymous
The souls of men are not measured by what they have done, but by what they leave behind.
— Anonymous
Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.
— Anonymous
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
— Catherine Booth
Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.
— Mark Batterson