Quotes About Legacy

She'll remember, when there's nothing else left of me worth remembering.

They can't die! Superheroes don't die!

When the dizziness subsided, when the waves that buffeted her withdrew, Genevieve was left with one certainty. The tie that bound mothers and daughters was like no other. It was eternal, stronger even than death.

Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

Words, I guess, are her more durable artifacts.

You could not survive your death, could you? It survived with you.

My father has the "settler's scar," a pink star scored into the brown leather of his palm by the handle of the moldboard plow.

They used our black pupils to polish up their antique triumphs.

People talk about heredity as if it's linear and vertical. Dead people pass things "down" to the young.

Whatever song we are making in this place, we are going to die without hearing.

Just about everybody I've ever wanted to impress, I've now outlived.

Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children. After

Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for.

Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be.) - Mandalorian saying

We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.

Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to.

Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them; you nourish them. You sow your seeds, and reap what you sow.

Everybody dies. But not everybody lives.

Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battle and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.

Do I want to know where I came from? Yes. But that doesn't impact who I want to be.

I've always thought that old clothes are a lot like old houses; they bring the past and present together.

I think we become good parents by either copying what our parents did or doing the opposite. The trick is in deciding which way you want to go.