Legacy Quotes

"I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles" "A writer's job is to give testimony, to bear witness to an age and the legacies of those who inhabit it." "The dead, I think, may be at peace, but we'll live with their wrath forever and have to endure the employment of the living to constantly remind us of it." "Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace I would gladly yield every honor which has been accorded me in war" "The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important." "If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten either write things worth reading or do things worth writing" "To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded " "The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other souls" "Posterity, you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it" "You are what you leave behind." "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace" "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived" "A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved yo" "Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality." "Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will." "Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain." "The footfalls of the centuries echo through my being" "Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy." "Sometimes, it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that generation." "The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope"