Time, Aging & Legacy: Legacy & Remembrance Quotes

Explore thoughtful reflections on how lives echo through time, honoring the traces we leave and the people who shaped us. These quotes consider memory, gratitude, and the slow weave of aging. Find words to commemorate loved ones, celebrate heritage, and inspire mindful choices that build a lasting legacy. Quiet, steady, and sincere, they invite remembrance, keeping stories alive for future generations while offering comfort and perspective.

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"Tiger Woods experienced perhaps the greatest fall from grace of any celebrity in American history"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

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"Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us"

E. T. Bell, Mathematician

"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

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"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living"

Cicero, Philosopher

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"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

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"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived"

George S. Patton, Soldier

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"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from"

John Still, Clergyman

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others"

Pericles, Statesman

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"Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms"

Che Guevara, Revolutionary

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"The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him"

Aharon Appelfeld, Novelist

"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do"

Gian Carlo Menotti, Composer

"A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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"Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead"

W. H. Auden, Poet

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"The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

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"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

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"First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys"

Queen Elizabeth II, Royalty

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"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

"All architects want to live beyond their deaths"

Philip Johnson, Architect

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"If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave"

Gerald R. Ford, President

"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make"

William Morris, Designer

"In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it"

Hans-Georg Gadamer, Philosopher

"It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go"

Randy Travis, Musician

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"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on"

John F. Kennedy, President

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"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

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"Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

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"He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons"

Carlo Goldoni, Playwright

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"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going without me"

Terry Fox, Athlete

"At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips"

Allen Johnson, Athlete

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

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"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

"Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all"

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Author

"History takes time. History makes memory"

Gertrude Stein, Author

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"The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap"

Spiro T. Agnew, Politician

"Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely"

Allen Weinstein, Public Servant

"I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give"

Roberto Clemente, Athlete

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"The world knows nothing of its greatest men"

Henry Taylor, Dramatist

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