Quotes About Legacy

Like I said, I'm a disappointment to her. She wanted me to be a murderer and an extortionist, like my father.

All through our lives, there are witnesses - parents, family, friends, people we work with, people we love and who love us, people who hate us and we hate. One by one they die, until the world seems empty, and eventually there are no independent witnesses to testify our crimes and our achievements. Only we remember them, there's nobody to contradict our version. If we want it to be, it can be the truth.

I mention this because that's how the world changes. It's either so quick that we never know what hit us, or so gradual that we don't notice. It's only later, when books are written and scholars decide what mattered and what didn't, that red lines are drawn

All those born in this land before Bharata, All those born after, are called after his name.

You can't give up a lowdown trade That your ancestors began; A butcher butchers things, and yet He's the tenderest-hearted man.

There is only so much one can do for the dead without joining them. The Caravan from Troon

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

the United States exploded a 10.4-megaton thermonuclear bomb in the Pacific, vaporizing the island of Elugelab. A clearly depressed Conant told a Newsweek reporter, "I no longer have any connection with the atomic bomb. I have no sense of accomplishment.

We did have a pretty intense discussion of why it was that we were continuing to make a bomb after the war had been [virtually] won.

Albert Einstein's daughter, Margot, was there to honor the man who had been her father's boss at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Oppenheimer's defeat was also a defeat for American liberalism.

Clearly we have all the time in the world," she said crossly. "Feel free to start way back with the dinosaurs—just as long as you get to the Carnevares and Alcantaras sometime.

Es mache ihn glücklich, sagte er, mit eigenen Händen aus Papier und Leder ein Buch für die Ewigkeit zu erschaffen.

Mothers are the backbone and strength of civilizations. - Strong by Kailin Gow

Heritage - be proud of it for you will be its legacy. It's your responsibility to carry on and learn your heritage. Otherwise, it will be lost.

Kingdoms Come and Go, but the Word Stays True. - Kailin Gow, Fearless Fairy Tales Series

With the level of destruction there has been, things could go backwards so quickly if no one works to preserve what humanity has learned. One generation not learning is all it would take for the world to regress to the Stone Age.", FADE by Kailin Gow

A lifetime of building an empire can fall in a day because of the wrong successor to the empire. - STRONG by Kailin Gow