I like a quote from "Aunt Jane of Kentucky" by Eliza Calvert Hall
"When I'm dead and gone there ain't anybody goin' to think o' the floors I've swept and the tables I've scrubbed, and the old clothes I've patched, and the stockin's I've darned...But when one of my grandchildren sleeps on one of those quilts, they'll think about me and, wherever I am then, I'll know I ain't forgotten.