Quotes About Legacy

But I don't want your throne." "Then what do you want?" "You.

It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.

Cinda Williams Chima

They fought for glory, but not for blood. They were Weirlind, heirs of the warrior's stone. And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.

I'd rather have a go at life, so there's something to talk about once we're gone.

Road trip?" "I'm going to dig up some dead relatives," she went on, "and ask them where the family money is.

What if it was true - what Elend had told his mother? What if he was cursed because the blood of the Demon King ran in his veins? His family fortunes had certainly fallen over the past thousand years - from King of the Seven Realms to starveling street thief.

Ir. Soekarno, ijazah ini suatu saat dapat robek dan hancur menjadi abu. Dia tidak abadi, ingatlah, bahwa satu-satunya hal abadi adalah karakter dari seseorang. Kenangan terhadap karakter itu akan tetap hidup, sekalipun dia mati.

Bung Karno, besok aku akan digantung. Aku meninggalkan dunia yang fana ini dengan hati gembira, pergi ke tiang gantungan dengan keyakinan dan kekuatan batin karena aku tahu Bung Karno akan melanjutkan perjuangan ini yang juga merupakan peperangan kami. Teruslah berjuang Bung Karno, balikkan perjuangan sejarah untuk semua kami yang sudah pergi mendahului sebelum perjuangan itu selesai" - Seorang Pejuang Kemerdekaan Yang Digantung Di Ciamis Melalui Surat Yang Diselundupkan Kepada Bung Karno

Telah terbukti dalam sejarah keagamaan dan politik, bahwa usaha untuk menindas seorang pemimpin, akan membuat namanya semakin hidup di hati rakyat.

Kekayaan Indonesia selama ratusan tahun dirampok oleh perusahaan asing, tak ada dari keuntungan itu ditanamkan lagi di bumi Indonesia. Berbeda dengan seorang patriot yang mencintai tanah tumpah darahnya, bangsa yang menjajah kami tidak memelihara tanah jajahan itu. Mereka menghancurkannya. Kami tidak terlibat dalam hal ini, tetapi kami menjadi pewaris-pewarisnya.

Here's the deal. I get to marry you. You get to become a Garrett - although, considering what you're marrying into, I'm not certain that's much of an incentive." Dallas to Amy

It's an odds-on favorite that if one laid enough Mormon genealogy charts end to end, one could prove either that all these fine families are related or that at least they've all laid each other end to end.

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability." (I

I believe it is the task of men to make a difference in this world, while they yet can.

possibility that she might not have been the sole one to be barren. She was the eldest

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

He left a trail like a meteor, and everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens.

If we beat the king ninety and nine times, yet he is king still and so will his posterity be after him; but if the king beat us once, we shall all be hanged, and our posterity made slaves.

But even now, a full century after he wrote his first school poem, scratched out in startlingly plain words on onion skin paper with a number two pencil, his heart and soul remain as fresh and brave as ever. Hemingway lives.

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

military historian Richard Holmes.

My father didn't tell me how to live he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.