Quotes About Legacy

O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320 Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand and who will never understand them.

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me. Let thy servant depart, Having seen thy salvation.

We die with the dying; see they return and bring us with them.

That is the reason. I keep Wishwood alive To keep the family alive, to keep them together, To keep me alive, and I live to keep them.

A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite.

You see, that is the secret of history, little Briony—who tells the last story.

God grant me a quick honorable death, Isgrimnur prayed, and never let me be one of those old fools who sits by the campfire telling the young men that things will never be as good as they once were.

Doctor Morgenes once told me that, in old Khand, they would kill the king's wives and concubines when he died, so that they could accompany him to the next life. Dear Simon, [Miriamele] said. I will leave word in my testament that they are not to kill you when I die. And I will do the same for you, dear Miri. But you may feel free to leap into my grave, as long as it's your own idea.

We are all children of both the good and evil that has gone before us.

It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.

The Berbers believe that when people are born, they are born with a story inside them, locked in their heart. It looks after them, protects them." Dr. Mehdi flicked the hood of his jelaba down onto his neck and sipped his coffee. "Their task is to search for their

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

Which do you think would be worse? Tippen asked. Knowing you're a son of a bitch or knowing you fathered one?

I don't think in terms of legacy. I think: I was here, and while I was here, it was incumbent upon me to make my life meaningful. And once I'm gone, that's fine. There are other people crowding in the gate. We don't want to clutter up the table with the legacy of people who've gone. There are other people. Give them a chance.

Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle

I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop]

Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, Speaking of war, I never raised you to be always fighting and killing. That's not woman's work. It's needful, Ma. You taught me a woman has to know how to defend herself. I never! gasped Sarra, indignant. You taught me when you were murdered in your own house, Daine said quietly.

So were you always mad, or did it come on you when you was took? Aly smiled. I'm told it runs in the family.

Once you've helped your daughter give birth to your first grandson, believe me, things like proper dinnerwear aren't important.

The only way we learn how adults act is from the adults who raised us. The children of monsters become monstrous, too.

The graves are, he suggests, only stone bookmarks left in pages of earth.

Here she forgot her country, all but a ghost of it, only the voices of her ancestors, her race, reminded her, and sometimes her dreams.