Legacy Quotes

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”

“O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your valour!”

“To the strongest.”

“I foresee a great funeral contest over me.”

“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

"Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors."

Jonas Salk

"Words have a longevity I do not."

Paul Kalanithi

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

"Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."

"His life was gentle, and the elements so mix'd in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world 'This was a man!'"

"One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives."

Subhas Chandra Bose

"In search of my mother's garden, I found my own."

Alice Walker

"There are two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings."

Hodding Carter