63 quotes found
“I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating pr...”
“Being a father, having an heir, seem to add an extra dimension to David. He had always been of vivid, animating presence in any room he entered. But now he would come from visiting the boy cracklin...”
“Adams looks forward to teaching his granddaughters about planting trees, noting that they already show inclination toward this and need only be encouraged in the naturalist pursuits he has found so...”
“The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will ...”
“Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwise experienced life intensely, for better or worse, you left a record. Those who lived a quiet, we...”
“What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we m...”
“We stopped you from going, didn't we? Me and Shiva. Our birth?"Don't be silly. Can you imagine me giving up this?" he said sweeping his hand to indicate family, Missing, the home he'd made out of a...”
“Greatness must be measured by the transfer of success to future generations”
“Unfortunately his Zen training never quite produced in him a Zen-like calm or inner serenity, and that too is part of his legacy. He was often tightly coiled and impatient, traits he made no effort...”
“I dont call it "Life Insurance," I call it "Love Insurance." We buy it because we want to leave a legacy for those we love.”
“Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal.”
“The first casualty of war is innocence. Dont be so eager to find this out. I assure you, Andraste, war is ugly. Legacy by SL Buckley”
“Don Ricardo wanted a successor worthy of himself. Jorge would always be cocooned in the privileges of his class, hiding from his mediocrity in creature comforts. Penelope, the beautiful Penelope, w...”
“Love it, Do it, Be in it, Become it until it regenerates in your legacy.”
“He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience.”
“#LegacyIts all by birth;we hardly can change,individual born with own limits & abilities.-13.04.2016”
“A worthy legacy is the irrevocable consequence of dreaming.”
“You lose track of time when you're deep in conservation with an otherworldly being made of pure Loric energy.”
“vocations almost always involve tasks that transcend a lifetime. They almost always involve throwing yourself into a historical process. They involve compensating for the brevity of life by finding...”
“The kind of legacy you leave will only reflect the kind of life you lived.”
