Impact on Future Generations Quotes

When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually.

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

It's up to history to judge.

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

The Trump name is now going to mean something else.

The No. 1 thing that I care about is the fact that I did my job by the children because that has a legacy that will far outlive me. Because it won't only be them, it will be how they impact their children and the next generation.

The dinosaurs are remember only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity?

public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.

I don't care about having a legacy, I don't care about being remembered. The most important thing to me is, while we're here, while we're having fun, while we're sleeping, breathng oxygen, living life, falling in love, having pain and having joy...what can we do with our voice to make things easier, to help someone to make it better for our kids.

Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity in their debt have been small States—Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.

Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning of the Bible so urgent: 'I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live.'

We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.