Quotes About Legacy

He had to live long enough to forge a purpose greater than that.

You are not the first and you will not be the last

No puedes dejar tu huella sin cribar unos cuantos egos por el camino

Respect borne of fear is not the same as respect borne of love. One passes with you to the grave, the other flourishes after your departure.

All he ever wanted was a comfortable chair and a place in history. Well, he was robbed of one and died in the other.

You'd make a good scythe. Citra recoiled. I'd never want to be one. That, he said, is the first requirement

Er hat das […] gegründet, um die Welt vor seiner Erfindung zu schützen!' ,Und daraus ist genau das Monster entstanden, vor dem er sich gefürchtet hatte.' Connor erinnert sich an etwas, das er in der Schule gelernt hat. Oppenheimer – der Mann, der die erste Atombombe gebaut hat – wurde am Ende ihr größter Gegner. Und wenn es bei Rheinschild genauso war?

Er hat das Proaktive Bürgerforum gegründet, um die Welt vor seiner Erfindung zu schützen!" "Und daraus ist genau das Monster entstanden, vor dem er sich gefürchtet hatte." Connor erinnert sich an etwas, das er in der Schule gelernt hat. Oppenheimer – der Mann, der die erste Atombombe gebaut hat – wurde am Ende ihr größter Gegner. Und wenn es bei Rheinschild genauso war?

Being a dead prophet was much better than being a live one.

You might think your own personal apple has fallen far from the tree, but that tree has roots you don't see until you trip over them.

2042 is the year we conquered death, and also the year we stopped counting. Sure, we still numbered years for a few more decades, but at the moment of the immortality, passing time ceased to matter.

I can't believe that you're being taught by the Scythe Curie. The Grandma of Death! Grande Dame, not grandma.

If not me, who? Will the scythe who replaces me be as compassionate and fair? I can accept a world without me in it . . . but I can't bear the thought of other scythes gleaning in my absence.

I can't believe you're being taught by the Scythe Curie. The Grandma of Death!

You have been dead for more than three years.

THE OLD GUARD AND THE NEW ORDER

Volume of curious facts and fictions of people who lived each day of their lives with the ravages of age and relentless approach of death. The brittle pages were filled with melodramatic and passionate short-sightedness that seemed laughable now. People who believed that their slightest actions mattered and that they could find a sense of completion before death inevitably took them, along with everyone they ever knew and loved.

Washington was still a place to be respected, but only in the way that we respect crumbling antiquity.

Historically, fallen civilizations left behind ruins that vanished into the landscape, only to be rediscovered thousands of years later, becoming almost mystical in nature. But what happens to the institutions and edifices of a civilization that doesn't fall, but evolves beyond its own embarrassment?

É o preço que se paga, minha querida. Não dá para deixar sua marca sem coletar alguns egos ao longo do caminho.

Heilige Sch*iße! Er hat das Proaktive Bürgerforum gegründet, um die Welt vor seiner Erfindung zu schützen!" "Und daraus ist genau das Monster entstanden, vor dem er sich gefürchtet hatte." Connor erinnert sich an etwas, das er in der Schule gelernt hat. Oppenheimer – der Mann, der die erste Atombombe gebaut hat – wurde am Ende ihr größter Gegner. Und wenn es bei Rheinschild genauso war?

Even now, at the end of her life, she still has to face that inevitable question. What good are you?

Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet and immediately began trying to get rid of each other, either by spamming their environments with rough copies of themselves, or by more direct means which hardly need to be belabored. Most of them failed, and their genetic legacy was erased from the universe forever, but a few found some way to survive and to propagate.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.