Quotes About Legacy

Die? Didn't you hear? SPARTAN's never die.

Sam's death had shown them that the Covenant were not invincible. They could be beaten. At a high cost, however. John finally understood what the Chief had meant—the difference between a life wasted and a life spent.

When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century ( Hermite , 1822-1901) could say without exaggeration, ' Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.' Asked how he had done all this in the six or seven years of his working life, Abel replied, 'By studying the masters, not the pupils.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

Commenting on the return of Descartes' remains to his native France, Jacobi remarks that "It is often more convenient to possess the ashes of great men than to possess the men themselves during their lifetime.

In all that galaxy of talent there was no brighter star than Niels Henrik Abel, the man of whom Hermite said, "He has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.

Lagrange's father, once Treasurer of War for Sardinia, married Marie-Thérèse Gros, the only daughter of a wealthy physician of Cambiano, by whom he had eleven children. Of this numerous brood only the youngest, Joseph-Louis, born on January 25, 1736, survived beyond infancy.

Empires, especially those born in violence, lived in violence.

Because knowing where we come from allows us to know who we are. Our past is part of us. We can't outrun our past, no matter how hard we try.

If she were alive today, she would be ashamed of me. I'm trying to change that.

Die uns vorleben wollen wie leicht das Sterben ist Wenn sie uns vorsterben wollten wie leicht wäre das Leben.

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?

It's hardly worth mentioning all of the hundreds of thousands of writings that have fallen victim to fire or intentional destruction over the centuries.

Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, by Charles Piazzi Smith, published in 1864,

Mans vanity transgresses death

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Memory can immortalize a dream. Beyond temporarily there is eternity. Lost Dreams.

We're made out of the water, the earth, the air of the places that fed our ancestors, quenched their thirst, the basic elements of the places that gave them life. Is it really so strange if we feel the heave and pitch of those places, even centuries later, in the vibrations of our atoms?

Thank you for bringing me to ThunderClan. Tell Bluestar I have always been grateful for the home she gave me. This is a good place to die. I only regret that I will miss watching you become what StarClan has destined you to be.

Kill me," he rasped at Clear Sky. "Kill me and live with the memory. Then tell the stars that you won." -Gray Wing

There will be three, kin of your kin..." Jayfeather's voice shook as he wondered if he could possibly be right. "Cloudtail is Firestar's kin, Whitewing is Cloudtail's daughter, and now Dovekit and Ivykit...Don't you see? The prophecy isn't over! We aren't the only kin of Firestar's kin. It doesn't matter which of Whitewing's kits is the one. There are still three of us! [Jayfeather]

I will honor my ancestors in StarClan," Bramblestar vowed, "but not those who have ever walked in the Dark Forest. Guide my steps wisely, warriors of the past." He lowered his head. "And warriors of now".