Quotes About Legacy

Centuries of enlightenment and progress vanished virtually overnight because Men couldn't find a way to use it wisely and purposefully.

All those men had died for some senseless reason, died perhaps without ever knowing exactly what they had fought to accomplish.

What do you care?" Arik Siq asked. "Who your people were matters hardly at all. Who they are now is what matters. Who you are." "Your history is sometimes a way of understanding your present," Pan replied. "You are your history.

What once was and was good ought not to be cast aside.

Your history is sometimes a way of understanding your present," Pan replied. "You are your history.

the world his parents and grandparents had known was gone forever, as dead as the moral and social fabric that had failed to hold it together.

Jethen Amenades

Reynolds Lucius Wadsworth III was Waddy's real name, the result of a three-generation tradition of unparalleled cruelty in the naming of first-born boys.

La vida es el momento de tomar decisiones, Walker Boh. Y la muerte es el momento de recordar lo que hemos decidido.

Life is for the living, and the living have an obligation to carry on.

A different future has to be the future of this particular present. And most of the present is made up of the past. We have nothing with which to fashion a future other than the few, inadequate tools we have inherited from our history. And these tools are tainted by the legacy of wretchedness and exploitation by which they descend to us.

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.

all that could be hoped for was for each generation to be raised to be sensible enough to learn from the past, not to lose sight of the things that mattered, and to understand why they mattered.

Trouble sires three children.

If an idea was sound, it had to have a life beyond a leader, or the leader had failed.

it's easier to feel shame if those guilty are centuries dead, especially when such discrediting, by default, confers upon yourself a higher moral standard without having to stand the test in the true environment of the time.

I think old age is nature's way of preparing us for death, making us more willing to take our leave of this world.

Death, though, was part of life. There could not be life without death always shadowing it.

The reason, as I had learned from my father, is that there is no certainty in death. Because there is no beginning or end, there is no way to measure how long your time.

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured. Books could almost be immortal.

The room, rather than breaking into whispering, as Dalton expected, fell into a stunned, dead silence. Dalton then realized, for the first time, really, that he had been born and lived his entire life under the reign of the old Sovereign. An era had ended. Many in the room had to be thinking the same thing.

This is the Sword of Truth.

We all have to die, Johnrock—every one of us. It is how we choose to live that matters. After all, it's the only life each one of us will ever have, so how we live is of paramount importance.

The Crusaders had not only taken into themselves the notion that they would become better people through violence; they also projected onto the victims of their violence their own inner demons. This is probably the most obvious and long-lasting heritage of the crusade. We still do it.