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Quotes About Legacy

Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.
~ Suzanne Collins
No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.
~ Suzanne Collins
I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.
~ Suzanne Collins
He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. "You're going to make a great mother, you know," he says. He kisses me one last time and goes back to Finnick.
~ Suzanne Collins
Make sure they remember you.
~ Suzanne Collins
On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count.
~ Suzanne Collins
Yes, she laid down her life taunting her tribute with a sandwich, thought Coriolanus. Maybe her gravestone could read, "Casualty of cheap laughs.
~ Suzanne Collins
Our lives aren't just measured in years. They're measured in the lives of people we touch around us
~ Suzanne Collins
sorry about my father — but I don't run Panem.
~ Suzanne Collins
You know what my mother said to me when she came to say goodbye, as if to cheer me up, she said maybe District 12 will finally have a winner. Then I realized she didn't mean me, she meant you." -Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games
~ Suzanne Collins
Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars and the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.
~ Suzanne Collins
So this is where stylists go when they've outlived their use. To sad theme underwear shops where they wait for death.
~ Suzanne Collins
I am determined to avenge her, to make her loss unforgettable, and I can only do that by winning and thereby making myself unforgettable.
~ Suzanne Collins
My mother was beautiful once too. Or so they tell me. -Katniss
~ Suzanne Collins
Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars and the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them. But
~ Suzanne Collins
I got my father's blood." The kind that quickens during a hunt, not an epidemic.
~ Suzanne Collins
Maybe her gravestone could read, "Casualty of cheap laughs.
~ Suzanne Collins
I prefer to think of myself as a legend, but I suppose 'guide' will do.
~ Suzanne Collins
You can't take my past. You can't take my history.
~ Suzanne Collins
We seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count.
~ Suzanne Collins
But our lives aren't just measured in years, they're measured in the lives of people we touch around us.
~ Suzanne Collins
Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them. But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current government.
~ Suzanne Collins
Something happened when I was holding Rue's hand, watching the life drain out of her. Now I am determined to avenge her, to make her loss unforgettable, and I can only do that by winning and thereby making myself unforgettable.
~ Suzanne Collins
Is this really what we want to do? Kill ourselves off completely? In the hopes that — what? Some decent species will inherit the smoking remains of the earth?
~ Suzanne Collins