Quotes About Legacy

Here I am trying to breed things out of my bloodline and ye neglect to tell me that, in marrying ye, I could be breeding other odd traits right back in? Did ye nay consider what sort of children two people such as we are might breed?" "Nay, I didnae, but now that ye mention it, 'tis an intriguing thought. Mayhap a lad who can tear his enemy's throat out then lick himself clean afterward." Bridget

I'm begging you, Taz, don't die a hero with no cause.

The Virgin Mary is both a major medieval legacy and a complicated, messy mixed bag.

We [sea folk] can live to be three hundred years old, but when we perish we turn into mere foam on the sea.

My life will be the best illustration of all my work.

Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour.

it will have helped us to feel that we have behaved decently till the end . . . we all acted alone, we were all caught alone, and every one of us will have to die alone. But that doesn't mean that we are alone, Quangel, or that our deaths will be in vain.

Man naar ogsaa at dø engang, og det er Synd, hvis man saa har forsømt at leve.

In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it.

In truth history does not belong to us but rather we to it.

K is for "Kenghis Khan." He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Harlow Giles Unger

Monroe's presidency made poor men rich, turned political allies into friends, and united a divided people as no president had done since Washington.

history informs us that the passage of dethroned monarchs is short from prison to the grave."18

I once knew this guy. Went by the name ShakesSPHERE. Greatest writer who ever lived, only he never wrote anything down.

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes.

The only difference between the East and the West seems to be that you have ancestors and we are going to be ancestors.

The Anxiety of Influence

Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

Abraham Lincoln

The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning.