Posterity Quotes

Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a l...

The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can ma...

A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life pl...

Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall...

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we...

Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I h...

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full c...

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been ap...

As to posterity I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

I do not attachany exaggerated importance to my poetical works. Life isthere to be lived rather than...

It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep...

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it...