Quotes About Legacy

That was what humans did: They left one another messages through time, pressed between pages or carved into a rock. Like reaching out a hand through time, and trusting in a phantom hoped-for hands to catch yours. Humans did not live forever. They could only hope what they made would endure.

What about you, little girl? You going to be a Shadowhunter like your dad?" Clary tried to hide her annoyance. "No," she said. "I'm going to be a Shadowhunter, but I'm not going to be like my father. And my name's Clarissa, but you can call me Clary." The elevator came to a stop; the doors slid open. The warlock woman's blue eyes rested on Clary for a moment. "Oh, I know your name," she said. "Clarissa Morgenstern. Little girl who stopped a big war.

She said that the planting of trees, like the education of children, was a gift to the future.

After you have done your work—challenging as it may have been to complete—and released it in the marketplace, be not concerned with sales, reviews, critical acclaim, or anything else of the like... After you've written and published a book, you're now an AUTHOR. And that great honor can NEVER be taken away from you, no matter what.

Heritage does not equal destiny.

Don't be ridiculous. Heritage does not equal destiny.

The experience bestowed a strange psychological legacy, leaving Steinbeck with a profound sense of vulnerability which shaped him as a writer.

Someone must preserve the ways of the People," Warrior rasped, "someone who will sing our songs and teach our ways. Unless you do that, all that we are will be lost. You must go get your woman and take her far away into the west lands where this war does not reach." Warrior's voice shook with emotion. "To a new place, Hunter. You know the words of the song.

I am young. I will give her many fine sons. She will not wail over my death for many winters.

We will meet again. I will come to you like the wind, from nowhere. Remember the face of this Comanche. I am your destiny.

Within her grew a child, both tosi tivo and Comanche, the child of the great warrior with indigo eyes and his honey-haired maiden. A child who brought new hope for the People and tomorrow.

Jean once told me she's not interested in writing about getting older but about getting dead.

Riley The Solace of Sin The Desert Crop The Thursday Friend A House Divided Rosie of the River The Silent Lady FEATURING KATE HANNIGAN Kate Hannigan (her first published novel) Kate Hannigan's Girl (her hundredth published novel) THE MARY ANN NOVELS A Grand Man The Lord and Mary Ann The Devil and Mary Ann Love and Mary Ann

The Mallen Girl The Mallen Litter FEATURING HAMILTON Hamilton Goodbye Hamilton Harold AS CATHERINE MARCHANT Heritage of Folly The Fen Tiger House of Men The Iron Façade Miss Martha Mary Crawford The Slow Awakening CHILDREN'S Matty Doolin

Joe and the Gladiator The Nipper Rory's Fortune Our John Willie Mrs. Flannagan's Trumpet Go tell It To Mrs Golightly Lanky Jones Bill and The Mary Ann Shaughnessy AUTOBIOGRAPHY Our Kate Let Me Make Myself Plain Plainer Still The Black Candle Bridget Deane Mordaunt was a woman of some consequence in her own part of the world.

Our family's fate seems to have hung on money for the last two generations, on money that we have never earned. We have lived in debt for so long: we have

We're all feathers in the fire; time passes on us like a lick of flame, one minute we're there, the next we're gone, forgotten, as if we'd never been.

Life is so fragile. You're here, then you're not, and it's final, no going back, no changing anything at all.

But I had promised myself, and my grandfather, that never again would I show fear or apprehension of the

Harriet Garner (as she appears in the marriage register) or Gardner (as reported in the newspaper's wedding announcement) married Benjamin Williamson on July 13, 1822. If Garner was Harriet Hemings, she made her decision about her future livelihood quickly but well.

The house, it's already been a-settin' here for a hundred years. It'll be right here tomorrow. It's today I must be livin'.

A mother's treasure is her daughter.

Why the remarkable commitment?" "Why not?" Nathan asked. "What else have I done with my life that's remarkable?

Living long is a gift denied to many, and so it comes with a responsibility to make the most of it.