Posterity Quotes - Page 14

• Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

  P. D. James

  Race, Mind, Ruins

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.21, Vintage

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• We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

  E. P. Thompson

  Past, History, Looks

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• May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.

  Mira Grant

  Looks, May, Today

  Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• The world teaches birth control. Tragically, many of our sisters subscribe to its pills and practices when they could easily provide earthly tabernacles for more of our Father's children. We know that every spirit assigned to this earth will come, whether through us or someone else. There are couples in the Church who think they are getting along just fine with their limited families but who will someday suffer the pains of remorse when they meet the spirits that might have been part of their posterity.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Couple, Pain

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; He spoke of a place in the heart.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Bible, God, Religious

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Oct 02, 2016

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• So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.

  Tacitus

  Encouragement, Errors, Events

  Tacitus (2013). “The Annals”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

  Jane Austen

  Rooms, Speak, Disposition

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.81

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• The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.

  Austin O'Malley

  Eye, Perfect, Criticism

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• Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and rain alone shall wear them away.

  Gutzon Borglum

  Prayer, Rain, Men

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• The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.

  George Orwell

  Roots, Long, Evil

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.

  Thomas Paine

  Family, Running, Children

  Thomas Paine (2006). “Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times; who, like the peak of Teneriffe, has hailed the intellectual sun before its beams have reached the horizon of common minds.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Names, Errors, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.15

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• The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

  George Eliot

  Imagination, Doubt, Fuel

  George Eliot “Theophrastus Such”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature.

  James Bryce

  Dream, Nature, Europe

  James Bryce (1889). “The American Commonwealth”

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• Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.

  Karl Marx

  Writing, Goes On, Lasts

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• He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

  Edmund Burke

  Treasure, Ancestor, Remembered

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• Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns and battles and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles.

  Robert E. Lee

  Struggle, Battle, Principles

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• You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Lucky, Ifs

  Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates, twitter.com. July 18, 2013.

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• If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.

  Randall Jarrell

  Law, Trying, Looks

  "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 230), 1955.

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• I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.

  Elvis Costello

  Sorry, Real, People

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.

  Alexander Crummell

  Integrity, Men, Temptation

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• What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Destiny, Men, Age

  "On Boswell's Life of Johnson" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1831.

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• One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Honesty, One Day, Ordinary

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• If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!

  Eugene Delacroix

  Different, Would Be, Actors

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• The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by all that has power of persuasion upon the human heart, concludes his exhortation by an appeal to these irresistible feelings - "Think of your forefathers and of your posterity."

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Heart, Thinking

  John Quincy Adams's Oration delivered at Plymouth at The Anniversary Commemoration of The Landing Of The Pilgrims, December 22, 1802.

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