159 Quotes by Laurence Overmire

Life is much more than the evanescent present. We should do all we can to preserve our antiquities, lest we forget who we are.

Wisdom is finding the path that is best for all - considering the options, the positives and the negatives - and having the courage to change what must be changed for the sake of the entire world.

Freedom is an idea that no tyrant will ever crush.

Some of us are given more time on this Earth than others, but none of us should ever take the gift of life for granted. If we strive to be the best we can be, committing ourselves to what is right and true, while helping others along the way, then we will leave our own story worth the telling and be a shining example for our children and our grandchildren and all those great, great, great, great grandchildren in those far off times to come.

An honest, poor, but otherwise unremarkable man and his loving, tender-hearted wife, though long forgotten and lost to history, may have been the ancestors who are most worthy of our admiration today.

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.

Doing the right thing, surrendering our short-term self-interest to serve the needs of the whole, has never been easy for humankind, but now, more than ever, that is exactly what we must do. Future generations are counting on us.