Justin Cronin Quotes

The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.

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 never looking at life in terms of legacy.

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

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.

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.

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

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

Legacy is not what I did for myself. It's what I'm doing for the next generation.

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

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.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

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

It's not about me, it's about the grandkids. That's what a lot of people don't understand about what Herman is up to.

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

One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

When I turned 25, something changed in me. I see children in my future 100%. Soon. I started thinking I want my kids to look back and say, 'Wasn't Mummy amazing?' I've really started thinking about what I'm leaving for them.