The Legacies Quotes

#1. The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.

Marian Wright Edelman

#2. We are shaped by the people and events that came before us: their likes and dislikes, their choice of life partner, the vocations they chose, the events they took part in or caused to happen, and the legacies they left behind.

Marion Marchetto

#3. Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

Noah Feldman

#4. Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind; as are the legacies of those who flow with them.

Criss Jami

#5. The roots of our statehood go back more than two millennia and two centuries to the origins of the Hun Empire. Building upon the legacies and power of the Huns, Mongols had built the largest land empire in the history of the mankind.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

#6. Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to
mankind, which are delivered down from generation to
generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn

Joseph Addison

#7. So Dad has joined the others up there. I feel that they do watch and guide, and I also feel that they join me in the hope that this story of our people can help alleviate the legacies of the fact that preponderantly the histories have been written by the winners.

Alex Haley

#8. There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.

Salman Rushdie

#9. They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.

Barack Obama

#10. The legacy I leave will be unimaginably enhanced by the legacies I received. Therefore, I must be wise enough to embrace the history of those who have gone before me so that I can shape the future of those who will go ahead of me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. When you have gaps in your memory like I do, you come to better appreciate the things you do remember. The way your hands just repeat a task you've done enough times, without even needing to think. Who needs Legacies when we have the infinite power of the human mind at our disposal?

Pittacus Lore

#12. Sam shakes his head, still marveling at the hulking warship. "So they have a secret weakness right? Like how you can shoot that one spot on the Death Star and the whole thing blows up?"
Adam's brow furrows. "What's a Death Star?"
Sam throws up his hands. "We're screwed.

Pittacus Lore

#13. One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

Armand Hammer

#14. I'd been raised to be practical and keep my
emotions in check, but I loved cars. That was one of the few
legacies I'd picked up from my mom. She was a mechanic,
and some of my best childhood memories were of working
in the garage with her.

Richelle Mead

#15. What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.

Maurice Sendak

#16. I want to do the best I can and let everyone else worry about legacies.

Grant Hill

#17. This is war, and people are going to die. Friends are going to die. I've come to accept the pain, to take the ugliness for granted. So it can be a little stunning when something good actually happens.

Pittacus Lore

#18. The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

Tavis Smiley

#19. What a great way to see all of our legacies live on, through the video games.

Randy Savage

#20. All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.

Jim Rohn

#21. If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infinitely greater call of self-sacrifice, in attempting to save our lives we will have in reality completely destroyed our lives.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.

Christine Gregoire

#23. You lose track of time when you're deep in conservation with an otherworldly being made of pure Loric energy.

Pittacus Lore

#24. Oral tradition is practised in most African cultures: ideals, family histories and legacies are handed down from one generation to the other physically or verbally. However, this system is flawed in the sense that a lot of African innovation, experience and culture have been lost, undocumented.

Nana Awere Damoah

#25. To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

John F. Kennedy

#26. It's not half so sensible to leave legacies when one dies as it is to use the money wisely while alive, and enjoy making one's fellow creatures happy with it.

Louisa May Alcott

#27. We have learned that mother trees recognize and talk with their kin, shaping future generations. In addition, injured trees pass their legacies on to their neighbors, affecting gene regulation, defense chemistry, and resilience in the forest community.

Peter Wohlleben

#28. As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

Marty Meehan

#29. The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

Ibrahim Babangida

#30. The central aspect I wanted to explore was the path a person takes to get to the point where they can justify doing terrible things in the name of good. What motivations sway them? What stones laid in childhood become the foundation legacies are built on?

Kiersten White

#31. Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

Criss Jami

#32. BEQUEST. You left me, sweet, two legacies, - A legacy of love A Heavenly Father would content, Had He the offer of; You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.

Emily Dickinson

#33. A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

Steve Berry

#34. Twelve down, like a hundred thousand left to go.

Pittacus Lore

#35. so many people live and they only live and die; so many people live and they truly live and die

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#36. A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

Walter Scott

#37. THE EVENTS IN THIS BOOK ARE REAL.
NAMES ANS PLACES HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO PROTECT THE LORIEN, WHO REMAIN IN HIDING.
OTHER CIVILIZATIONS DO EXIST.
SOME OF THEM SEEK TO DESTROY YOU.

Pittacus Lore

#38. One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves.

Barack Obama

#39. There was no honor in grinding outsiders underfoot. There was no joy in burning their legacies. The highest good laid in lifting everyone up, believer and unbeliever alike, to enjoy the light.

C.K. Gold

#40. Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true. The American nation in 1790, however, was a real world, laden with legacies like slavery, and therefore too true to be good.

Joseph J. Ellis

#41. The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes ... but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies

Alan Lomax

#42. The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#43. The Bible is a precious storehouse, and the Magna Charta of a Christian. There he reads of his Heavenly Father's love, and of his dying Saviour's legacies. There he sees a map of his travels through the wilderness, and a landscape, too, of Canaan.

John Berridge

#44. Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

Ban Ki-moon

#45. Our real lasting legacies are the prints we leave on the soul of the world.

Leta B.

#46. Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.

Bell Hooks

#47. Sometimes we are pulled along by our genetic legacies, and sometimes we pull them along behind us, despite all odds, into the lives we choose to make for ourselves.

Shukyou

#48. Sam stares at me. He's frozen. His hands are extended out in front of him like he just shoved the Piken and still hasn't finished with the follow-through. Slowly, he blinks his eyes. Sam looks down at his hands, then over at me.
"Holy shit," he says. "Did I just do that?

Pittacus Lore

#49. It's about legacies. And the question-- how do you make a dead man proud?

Tom Taylor

#50. Death is the future of everyone, but he who detests death is a failure in life, but he who admonishes it is an achiever

Michael Bassey Johnson

#51. You are not responsible for the murderous rampage of an alien psycho, okay?

Pittacus Lore

#52. Whatever you're thinking, it's a bad idea.

Pittacus Lore

#53. All right, Adam", I say. "You're gonna help me win this war.

Pittacus Lore

#54. So many Chimaerae," Nine says, nodding excitedly as he gazes into the darkness. "That's awesome."
"We named the chubby, lazy one after you," Sam replies.
"Less awesome.

Pittacus Lore

#55. When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

Clarence Day

#56. To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

Oscar Wilde

#57. As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and strength and backward to draw on the values and legacies of our families, ancestors, and communities.

Marian Wright Edelman

#58. Maybe it's a reminder from Henri that you're supposed to rake the lawn.

Pittacus Lore

#59. The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

Hun Sen

#60. Roman laws tended to be long and complex - one of Rome's most enduring legacies to the world is cumbersome and tortuous legal prose.

Adrian Goldsworthy

#61. Can I kiss you?" Marina asks him [Eight].
"I really wish you would.

Pittacus Lore

#62. I still don't have all the answers, but I'm no longer afraid to confront the questions.

Pittacus Lore