Quotes About Legacy

and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the people who had danced here across centuries of spring evenings, gallant girls seeing gallant boys off to war, old men and women straight-backed while outside their world disintegrated and the new one battered at their doors, all of them bruised and all of them laughing, welcoming us into their long lineage.

They are forever, a brief and mortal forever, a forever that will grow into their bones and be held inside them after it ends, intact, indestructible.

I never knew and never will whether either Cassie or I was a great detective, though I suspect not, but I know this: we made a team worthy of bard-songs and history books. This was our last and greatest dance together, danced in a tiny interview room with darkness outside and rain falling soft and relentless on the roof, for no audience but the doomed and the dead.

Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by, As you are now so once was I; As I am now so will you be.…

This is the truth of bombed-out ruins: hit a city hard enough and the cheap arrogant veneer will crumble faster than you can snap your fingers; it's the old stuff, the stuff that's endured, that might just keep enduring.

If you know your job, you have a responsibility to pass the knowledge on.

Chris had cracked the four of them right across. Even after he was gone, the fault line he made had kept widening, deep under the surface, while everything up on top shone beautiful as new. We were just finishing the job he had begun.

Black history is black horror.

Though we come and go, and pass into the shadows, where we leave behind us stories told — on paper, on the wings of butterflies, on the wind, on the hearts of others — there we are remembered, there we work magic and great change — passing on the fire like a torch — forever and forever. Till the sky falls, and all things are flawless and need no words at all.

Tanya Anne Crosby

Life is a work of art, and Death is the masterpiece

Oh my son," sighed Ama. "I was talking to the shadows of the pomegranate trees. At least they will be here when we are all gone.

Galileo held the truths he had discovered to be of very great significance, but as soon as they endangered his life he recanted with the greatest of ease. He felt that whether the earth or the sun revolved around each other was not worth his life. He may also have felt that it was more important for him to live and work so that his students could spread the truth.

To je uradila uvjerena da njen život nije toliko zanimljiv nikom osim njoj samoj, a njoj je ionako valjalo mrijeti. Nije pomislila da je brisanjem onoga što je smatrala okamenjenim uspomenama iz svoje li?ne povijesti, ona osudila tu jedinstvenu hroniku cijelog jednog života na zaborav koji sobom nosi nadolaze?a buktinja.

Ukoliko želite da imate dobar život nemojte nikada zaboraviti da ?ete umrijeti.

Never forget I am old," she said. "What does that mean, Mummy-ji?" "Didn't you know? Old is gold, na.

Heir and a spare and change.

Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edith Wharton, and Amelia B. Edwards (yes, the Egyptologist who gave her first name to Amelia Peabody) all contributed to the craze. Henry James' magnificent The Turn of the Screw is one of the best:

we are bound tightly by our past actions, the effects of which are inescapable.

Zakhor. Al Tichkah. Remember. Never forget.

And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when you're old enough, this story that lives with me, will live with you as well. When a story is told, it is not forgotten. It becomes something else, a memory of who we were; the hope of what we can become.

Zakhor, Al Tichkah.' Souviens-toi. N'oublie jamais.

the Rey family grave at the

family secret that was about to disrupt her