Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

I want to leave a nice legacy.

I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.

The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

I want to take care of my family for generations. I want to have my head turned into a bust in the Hall of Fame.

Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.

Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

A man's immortality can be found in his children.

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind, as we have given our lives to them.

I'm never looking at life in terms of legacy.