Quotes About Legacy

The Days never won anything. They always said that, marveling, whenever they had a tiny piece of good luck: We never win anything! It was the family motto.

First thing she said to me once we got our food: "I have one daughter. Thirteen years old. Mia. For Mia Hamm. She was born the day we won the World Cup. So, that's my daughter.

No one saves an e-mail, because it's so inherently impersonal. I worry about posterity in general. All the great love letters – from Simone de Beauvoir to Sartre, from Samuel Clemens to his wife, Olivia – I don't know, I always think about what will be lost—

Your grandparents always told me, Make a useful life. I don't feel I've really done that, but I can make a useful death... - My life has been determined so much by accidents, it seems nice that now an accident on purpose will make things right again. A happy accident.

know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature spun backward. But it's the only way to truly keep your child. Kids grow up, they forge more potent allegiances. They find a spouse or a lover. They will not be buried with you. The Keenes, however, will remain the purest form of family. Underground.

Her family had long had a sense of history and understood that what was not written down might almost not have existed. The Stephens and Pattles...understood the value of old pieces of paper covered in handwriting.

So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

No one will sing songs in our memory. We are the last of the Free Companies of Khatovar. Our traditions and memories live only in these Annals. We are our own mourners.

No one will sing songs in our memory. We are the last of the Free Companies of Khatovar. Our traditions and memories live only in these Annals. We are our only mourners. It is the Company against the world. Thus it has been and ever will be.

One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid down.

Maybe, maybe not. You might be surprised. But, win or lose, they'll've set an example by trying— which is more than anyone's ever done. Gives an old man hopes of seeing the War die before he does. Word of this gets out, maybe nobody'll answer the call to the next Gathering.

Nikt nie za?piewa pie?ni na nasz? cze??. Jeste?my ostatni? z Wolnych Kompanii z Khotovaru. Nasze tradycje i wspomnienia ?yj? wy??cznie w tych Kronikach. Jedynie my przywdziejemy ?a?ob? po sobie samych. Kompania przeciw ca?emu ?wiatu. Tak by?o i tak zawsze b?dzie.

The wisest peasants were those who fled early. Their children will repopulate the land.

They steal our yesterdays and leave us no youth but that of our children.…

Niño que estás creciendo: si llegas a ser buena gente seguirás creciendo de muerto.

Ya ves qué tontería, me gusta escribir tu nombre, llenar papeles con tu nombre, llenar el aire con tu nombre; decir a los niños tu nombre, escribir a mi padre muerto y contarle que te llamas así. Me creo que siempre que lo digo me oyes. Me creo que da buena suerte. Voy por las calles tan contenta y no llevo encima más que tu nombre.

the thngs that matter most in this world can never be held in our hand.

They didn't understand the importance of a family, of life. All of those sacrifices to build them houses and they refused to build a history.

There's always a way, his sister lectured. We'll need help, though. What help? Amy grinned. Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history.

It's kind of a joke. It was supposed to be 'Come alive with the Pepsi generation.' But it actually translates more like 'Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave.

want a refund from ancestry.com. They traced my family all the way back to the revolution. And in all those forefathers and foremothers, aunts, uncles, and cousins, there was nobody like me.

Never trust a Cahill." They

Occasionally we hear the story of an organizational leader who, having given powerful leadership to an institution, comes toward the end of his working life and keeps holding on to leadership long after he should have let it pass into the hands of someone in a younger generation. Or he ensures that the leadership passes into the hands of a son or a daughter so that he can maintain his influence.