Death Quotes

For everything you have missed,

you have gained something else,

and for everything you gain,

you lose something else.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought

forth on this continent, a new nation,

conceived in Liberty,

and dedicated to the proposition that

all men are created equal.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land.

You,

who have it to see,

welcome it—and forget not those who have fallen during the night.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Friendship is not something

you learn in school.

But if you haven't learned

the meaning of friendship,

you really haven't

learned anything.

Computers are like a bicycle for our minds.

John Glenn's life will long be remembered for his time in space,

his courage,

and his service to all Americans.

The things that will destroy America are

prosperity at any price, peace at any price,

safety first instead of duty first,

the love of soft living, and the get rich quick theory of life.

I want to leave a legacy of laughter.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more,

but those giving more.

I am from there.

I am not from there.

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser

than you were when you woke up.

We seldom realize,

for example,

that our most private thoughts

and emotions are not actually our own.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives.

One way to keep momentum

going is to have constantly greater goals

Michael Korda