Jonathan Swift Quotes

Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is keep it for your children, your children's children and for all who come after you.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.

With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

People really are very concerned when they put their head on the pillow at night - they're concerned that America may cease to be what America has been because we are leveraging the future of our children and our grandchildren.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

I beseech you to live not only for this age, but for the next also.

Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?

Legacy? I'm a worker in the factory; all we care about is today! A legacy... what a bunch of baloney.

The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to posterity.

Legacy is an issue, in my opinion. People in the ISL seemed very much more worried about winning, than in creating a legacy.

Each one of us is a custodian of India's well-being and of the legacy that we will pass on to coming generations.

We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.

It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

I love museums, and I think they're fantastic, but they don't touch the people who I frequently think need to be touched with at least some reminder of legacy.

I am not taking away the historical legacy, but it should not become a burden.

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.