Quotes About Legacy

Romulan was the child of his body, the last emblem of love which was left.

Nothing on earth or under it would induce him to pursue that man in his plain dark blue, to court that man, to tell him his son would do as he was bid. Nor could anything, least of all himself restrain Romulan from obeying his order-inane, not understood, ridiculous, a promise of utter tedium. For to refuse Valentius was to refuse all his forbears, the very mortar of the Tower itself. Such defiance seemed too heavy for Romulan to shoulder, although he ached to do so.

You must live every moment of your life in such a way that if you had to live it over and over again till infinity, this would be a good thing.

Life isn't about the years you lived. It is about how you lived.

If you're reading this, Alysha Catherine, I'm dead. Don't make a fuss—it's a state we all come to in the end. Except possibly for Jane who may be too mean to die.

By the standards of the European industrial world we are poor peasants, but when I embrace my grandfather I experience a sense of richness as though I am a note in the heartbeats of the very universe.

By the standards of the European industrial world we are poor peasants, but when I embrace my grandfather I experience a sense of richness as though I am a note in the heartbeats of the very universe. He is no towering oak tree with luxurious branches growing in a land on which Nature has bestowed water and fertility, rather he is like the sayal bushes in the deserts of the Sudan, thick of bark and sharp of thorn, defeating death because they ask so little of life.

Remember, one of the greatest gifts you can give your children is to be financially independent in your old age, thus ensuring that you won't become a financial burden to them.

That's it?" Jason asked. "You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?" No, not dying, Son. Living.

Everyone wanted to create his own history. There was nothing as powerful as the written word; history had taught them all that much.

He who holds his life dear is destroying it; And he who makes his life of no account in this world Will keep it to the life of the ages." Yeshua

Bloody footprints staggering through this palace Generation to generation.

To destroy other people's culture is to rob them of immortality.

My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is--all--over....

I followed, from then on, in my father's footsteps, attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.

For Simon Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset would not spend his life as Earl Clyvedon. That was a mere courtesy title. Simon Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset—the baby who possessed more names than any baby could possibly need—was the heir to one of England's oldest and richest dukedoms. And his father, the ninth Duke of Hastings, had waited years for this moment

Ah, yes," Anthony said with a slight roll of his eyes, "the Bridgerton method of naming children. Guaranteed to make certain no one forgets who you are.

If you don't want a child because you don't want one, that's one thing. But if you deny yourself the joy of fatherhood because of a dead man, then you're a coward.

I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.

So we are drawn to graveyards, where we can be close to the dead and ponder their fate as well as our own.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

Our desire to preserve is a form of denial about our own mortality. The fact that art can indure longer than people has lead some to seek a form of proxy-immortality through it. If we accept that art is mortal too, and that nothing is truly permanent, maybe we can see more clearly where the value of art and life is to be fount - in experiencing them.

Dinosaurs and dodos come and go, and we?

Tohono O'odham Nation chairman Ned Norris Jr. explained. "We feel very strongly that this particular wall will desecrate this area forever. I would compare it to building a wall over your parents' graveyards. It would have the same effect.