Quotes About Legacy

Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass along the accumulated experience that creates good admirals.

It is interesting to note that Copernicus was German/Polish, Luther was German, and Gutenberg was German.

In 732 Charles Martel, in a defining battle, defeated the Muslim armies, forcing them back behind the mountains and confining them to the Iberian Peninsula. Had Martel lost that battle, Europe would have been a very different place. It

the idea that the past is obsolete is always resisted at an era's end.

Empires always spawn demons,

The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and understates the power of reality crafted by those who came before him. We are all trapped in circumstances into which we were born and choices that were made for us.

I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.

The problem with Conlan was that he had his father's unshakeable confidence and his mother's mouth.

The world needs more good people in it, and my son will be a good person.

Your father would be proud of you. Don't ever doubt that. The agency is his legacy, Nevada. You make sure that it thrives and its name stands for something. Right now it stood for we get ourselves into violent messes and then heroically try to get out of them.

Well, if he wasn't dead, he definitely wasn't happy. Great, I've turned into my mother. That's what she would say.

a small House consisting only of him and my grandmother Victoria.

Gerard Demille wasn't her biological parent, but he was the only father she ever knew.

Eventually Victoria will die. She's old. And that didn't sound morbid. Not at all.

Look, she gave me a new sword." Curran peered at it. "It looks like Slayer." "That's because they're both made of her bones." "Your sword is made out of your grandmother's bones?" "Okay, I see how it sounds weird when you say it in that tone of voice . .

It's a sword made out of your grandmother's bones, Kate.

from a blueblood noble house. Only the blueblood man was allowed to enter. He sat in their kitchen, an older grizzled warrior with a sword on his waist, and laid it all out. Only bluebloods

My mom once told me that the American Dream was to live better than your parents." "Do you think it's true?" he asked. "I think everyone defines better differently. Some want more money. Others want more time.

The first generation of the sahanu is dead. The second generation of the sahanu is dead. The Order of Sahanu is dead. Everybody is dead." Javier paused. "Praise be to In-Shinar, the Merciful.

The point of having a castle isn't hiding inside its walls; it's being worthy of it.

lietuvi? tauta privalo b?ti išsaugota, nes joje slypi raktas visoms m?sl?ms – ne tik filologijos, bet ir istorijos — ?minti".

In what way will our remote posterity be able to cope with the enormous accumulation of historical records which a few centuries will bequeath to them?

It is good to regard labor as hard work to be done, work that a long line of female ancestors did in the past that enabled us to be here at all.

Marie Striekwold-Ebben, passed along this piece of wisdom: "Even if you don't have much money, keep in mind that the bedroom is the most important room in the house. Love and sadness are shared under the sheets, and you hope that your children will come into the world in your bedroom and that you will leave the world there.