Quotes About Legacy

Ya lo ven, hay gente que no asume la historia, que el paso de los siglos y sus aconteceres no tienen importancia para ellos.

Não se pode alterar a história, a história foi o que foi.

Muchas gracias, no sabe cómo le agradezco su ayuda, sin usted no podría reconstruir la vida de mi bisabuela. —¿Y por qué ha de reconstruirla? Si usted no hubiera aparecido en esta casa, todo seguiría igual y nos moriríamos tranquilas sin mirar al pasado.

La vida no nos pertenece, es un préstamo.

There are great dreamers and there are great workers in the world! When a dreamer is also a worker, he is working for today and for tomorrow as well. For he is building for those who come after us.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an heir.

And I hope you will not think me foolish when I also extend my thanks. Thank you, Michael, for letting my son love her first. —from Janet Stirling, dowager Countess of Kilmartin, to Michael Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin

He was the firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton eight times over. He had a dynastic responsibility to be fruitful and multiply.

It was a damned good thing men couldn't have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier.

She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that her mother had indeed been a fool and her father had been a damned fool and that she was the damnedest fool of them all.

You are a Bridgerton. I don't care who you marry or what your name becomes when you stand up before a priest and say your vows. You will always be a Bridgerton, and we behave with honor and honesty, not because it is expected of us, but because that is what we are." Eloise

Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn't think to put any other name on anything...It was a wonder he didn't drink Kilmartin Tea and sit on a Kilmartin-style chair. In fact, he probably would be doing just that if his grandmother had found a way to manage it without actually taking the family into trade.

How delightful! Dunford had just come into an unexpected inheritance. She rather hoped it was something good. One of her friends had just unwillingly inherited thirty-seven cats.

Edmund Bridgerton had died at the age of thirty-eight. And Anthony simply couldn't imagine ever surpassing his father in any way, even in years.

I am beggining to realise," Alex murmured, "why people always hope for sons. It has nothing to do with producing an heir." "That was unkind," Octavia said, not sounding the least bit insulted. "Females are a prodigious amount of work.

He was her other half, the spoon she was made to nestle into. They would be young together, and then they would grow old together. They would hold hands, and move to the country, and make lots and lots of babies.

This girl – this woman – she was a wonder. She was going to change history. She already had.

we regard the earldom as an important family honor. But my father is a good man precisely because he is a good man, not because he possesses an ancient title. And as for Lord Blackwood, I find his title all the more appealing because it represents the nobility of the man standing before you, not of some long-dead ancestor.

Some had had to suffer through a few daughters before siring a precious son

You will always be a Bridgerton, and we behave with honor and honesty, not because it is expected of us, but because that is what we are.

Since George was a child he had led the Rokesby family with a firm but fair hand. He was a pillar; he was strength.

Anthony Bridgerton hatte schon immer gewusst, dass er jung sterben würde.

Thank you, Michael, for letting my son love her first. —from Janet Stirling, dowager Countess of Kilmartin, to Michael Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin, June 1824.

You have to live each hour as if it's your last and each day as if you were immortal