Quotes About Legacy

You have given us a part in a story the bards will sing to our children's children.

Victory doesn't matter to the dead, nor to the living who mourn them.

a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.

So you were good enough for the Cullach Gorrym, good enough to marry Dorelei mab Breidaia, good enough to beget Alba a successor, but not good enough for the Queen's daughter?" Urist's lips curled with scorn. The tip of his knife flicked upward. "Well, that's what I think of that, lad." The red yarn parted and fell.

There are many things wealth cannot buy, and most of those are enumerated by philosophers who have never woken wondering if this day would be their last.

Life ended, but politics continued.

Je ne connais pas que la plaine caillouteuse, l'errance et la lente perte de l'espoir, je suis le rejeton stérile d'une race dont je ne sais rien, pas même si elle a disparu. Peut-être que, quelque part, l'humanité resplendit sous les étoiles, ignorant qu'une fille de son sang achève sa vie dans le silence. Nous n'y pouvons rien.

As William Ferris is fond of saying, "in Africa when an older person dies, a library burns.

We are all impacted by the events that will become history.

That's one more thing that I detest about war. It's not over when it ends.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind.

I do not know if these hands will become Malcolm's—raised and fisted or Martin's—open and asking or James's—curled around a pen. I do not know if these hands will be Rosa's or Ruby's gently gloved and fiercely folded calmly in a lap, on a desk, around a book, ready to change the world . . .

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself

From this point of view, Rousseau knew that death is not the simple outside of life. Death by writing also inaugurates life. "I can certainly say that I never began to live, until I looked upon myself as a dead man" (Confessions, Book 6 [p. 236]).

Giovanni de' Medici

Jan Hus. Kepler was part of the funeral

This is the greatest evil that grows out of a wrong act. Somebody always remembers it Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in an evil way.

Always remember, John, that you and I live on a minor planet attached to a minor star, at the far edge of a minor galaxy. We live here briefly, and when we're gone, we're forgotten. And one day the galaxies will be gone, too. The only morality that makes sense is to do something useful with the brief time we're allotted.

In peace sons bury their fathers; in war fathers bury their sons.

People and places know greatness for a while, then decline.

And wherever you go on the face of the earth have the humility to think that a thousand years ago someone pretty much like you stood there and a thousand years from now a boy like you will be there. And in two thousand years boys and places and people will have been pretty much the same.

Any spot for which a man's forebears have bled and died will forever be his homeland.

My principal flowers will be trees. Because when you plant trees, you're entitled to believe you'll live forever. So