Quotes About Legacy

We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.

Discomfort it temporary. A photo is forever.

This was how history moved, the slow build, the quick burn, and in an incoherence, the leaping both backward and forward, swallowing the young into old hate.

He had told her the story of his brave ancestors in the army, but why didn't he ever speak of his family here and now?

But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. But should the child therefore also enjoy the father's illicit gain?

His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed certain lines; the script was always the same, and they had no option but to beg for mercy.

No one is truly lost when they remain in the hearts and minds of those wwho love them

Powers rise and fall. Leaders come and go. History makes a mockery of our best-laid plans, in the end, you aare left with thosecthings you have shared with one another

Doctor Sharak did not hear from her yesterday. He requested that I rectify that today. I came here at his request, but two hours later, my gut tells me something is wrong. I'm the one you need to satisfy now, which is bad news for you and whoever you work for. I've got five generations of Starfleet brass in my family tree and, unlike Doctor Sharak, I actually know how this game is played.

My father is Lester Liu. - Oona

We're OConchobhairs and they're our friends. Dad always said that what our name means - friend of the wolves.

When then President Barack Obama visited Laos in September 2016, he reminded us that America had dropped more than two million tons of bombs here in Laos—more than we dropped on Germany and Japan combined during all of World War II. It made Laos, per person, the most heavily bombed country in history.

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.

My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.

When you have been dead and buried Many things worry you But nothing frightens you.

East of Eden,

One day in Lincoln's life can change your whole life and all lives around you.

Los dos éramos, por así decirlo, firmes partidarios del paro cardiaco como causa de muerte. El único inconveniente de una muerte tan repentina, dijo bromeando, es que uno ha de tener sus bienes bajo control en todo momento para estar seguro de no dejar ninguno de sus secretos, por no decir inclinaciones, a la posteridad. Contesté, en el mismo tono de broma, que ese era un pensamiento muy vanidoso.

So I parried, 'You're afraid to die, eh? Oh well.' 'Nonsense. It's only that my life's work isn't done yet.' That is how pompously he expressed himself, it was sickening.

What matters to African Americans is their situation today, not how much their condition has "improved" compared to 150 years ago when many of their ancestors lived in slavery

Then was the monument called "Stonehenge," which stands, as all men know, upon the plain of Salisbury to this very day.

In the old days a poet once said" In the old days a poet once said our nation is destroyed yet the mountains and rivers survive Today's poet says the mountains and rivers are destroyed yet our nation survives Tomorrow's poet will say the mountains and rivers are destroyed our nation is destroyed and Alas! you and I are completely destroyed

Before I arrived, who were the people living here? Only violets remain.

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.