Quotes About Legacy

The only thing you own is your story. Make sure it's a good one.

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

Baby, let me tell you what's going to happen. In a few years, there are going to be beautiful posters of Malcolm X, and his photographs will be everywhere. The same people who don't give a damn now will lie and say they always supported him.

La esencia se escapa, pero su aura permanece

It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come."- Maya Angelou

I would miss Mrs. Flowers, for she had given me her secret word which...was to serve me all my life: books.

La gente olvidará lo que dijiste y lo que hiciste, pero nunca olvidará cómo les hiciste sentir.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave

Humility says there were people before me who found the path. I'm a road builder. For those who are yet to come, I seem to be finding the path and they will be road builders. That keeps one humble. Love keeps one humble.

When great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

Simply holding on to that tangible link between mother and daughter. A bond like no other. Irreplaceable. Unwavering. Old as time itself. There truly was nothing like the love of a mother. Unconditional. Solid. Indefinable and limitless. Capable of surviving anything. Able to triumph over the impossible.

Biography is often a transparent contest for possession.

Uneasy sleeper you will live to see the city of your birth pulled down to the last stone.

my grandmother has given me her own version of the precious gift: the most precious gift any teenager coul ask for: MY GRANDMOTHER HAS GIVEN MY MY OWN SEX PLACE!!!!!

I'm completely demanding an autopsy on my grandmother's brain when she's dead so I can see what I'm in for as I age.

I can command the Royal Genovian Air Force, Grandmère supposedly replied. As well as the Royal Genovian Navy. But the one thing in the world I have no control over, Helen, is your womb. Now come along.

Also, my dad doesn't have cancer anymore. But, did you just read the sentence before the last one. Yeh, you probably are reading it again now. And you know what that means right. If he is a King, and I am his next descendent, guess who is the next heir of the throne? Can you guess? BINGO! It's me. Oh great." (Page 25)

Sybil Ludington

That one"—he nodded toward the closed door—"will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings.

All the things man has made are eventually destroyed.

A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. We are all children until our fathers die.

Mark my words, Alex. You are a man whose future lies before him for all to marvel at one day. And you, Colonel Hamilton, are mine, and I am yours always.