Quotes About Legacy

Saphira, Nasuada, Arya, and Roran.

To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being." At last they arrived at a ribbed

Christopher Paolini

It's not my fault my father had a habit of seducing milkmaids wherever he went.

Christopher Paolini

Christopher Paolini

Christopher Paolini

Los cantos de los muertos son el lamento de los vivos.

Take comfort, then, that whatever you choose in life has importance beyond yourself. Importance, even, on a cosmic scale.

Perhaps it existed only to stand in contrast with the whole nature, as if to say, We were here. Alex wasn't sure if the thought was morbid or inspiring.

But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.

I am not dead. Death does not exist. I am alive! That is the purpose of this tale, to let everyone know that they do go on and that they don't need to be afraid, as I was afraid. Yet I also have a selfish reason for wanting my story told. I was young when I died. I didn't have a chance to make my mark in the world. I didn't do anything unique, nothing that will change the course of history. But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.

Having lived so long, I can't tell the difference between the two political parties. They both sound like broken records that started skipping after the founding fathers died. Now there were some real men!

You will be a mum until the day you draw your last breath.

Our pictures are fleeting and elusive. In the far future, bits of hard drives may be fossilized in limestone, and discarded iPhones may find themselves encased in amber, hardened like nail polish, but the bits of humanity that these exquisitely crafted machines hold will be lost to time.

It was a day-by-day record of a Guild much younger and smaller than the current one. After several pages, she had grown fond of the record-keeper, who clearly admired the people he was writing about.

Hanara did not yet feel he'd reached long-life. It was a state, slaves said, where you felt satisfied you have lived long enough. Where you didn't feel cheated if you died. You might not have had an easy life, or a happy one, but you'd had your measure. Or you had made a difference to the world, even a small one, because you had existed.

You have made a difference, Rothen," she protested. "I'd have never become a magician if it were not for you. And what is this talk of your life ending? It's going to be years – decades – before you need to start planning a gravestone to outdazzle everyone else's.

Musing upon the king my brother's wreck And on the king my father's death before him.

Earl The Goat Manigault was probably the greatest basketball player of all time, but Michael Jordan is universally regarded as the best ever. This is because The Goat only did it at Rucker Park, while Michael did it where it mattered: in front of the world.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?