Quotes About Legacy

At least Oak would not grow up as I have, with death as my birthright

Things will be easier without me around. They'll see that." "They won't," I told him, trying to ignore the intense surge of envy that came with knowing he would be missed.

Madoc would be so proud- his little girl, remembering all her training,' she says. 'Starving off the terrifying possibility of romance.

He made me into a story, and I am going to make a story out of someone else.

And if I am particularly kind that evening, particularly deferential, if I laugh particularly loudly, it is because I know I will never do this again. I will never have him behave like this with me again. But for one final night, he's the father I remember best, the one in whose shadow I have- for better or worse- become what I am.

Father, I am what you made me. I've become your daughter after all.

Memories were your most intimate legacy. But if those memories were compromised in some way, would your continued existence be compromised, too?

Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread conflict.

May men say, "He is far greater than his father," when he returns from battle.

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

In the extravagance of her evil she has brought shame both on herself and on all women who will come after her, even on one who is virtuous.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

J'ai été enterré sous les morts ; mais, maintenant, je suis enterré sous des vivants, sous des actes, sous des faits, sous la société tout entière, qui veut me faire rentrer sous terre!

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others -- existences which the spirit alone remembers, for matter has no memory for spiritual things.

No vivimos nosotros también de muertos? Pues ¿qué son las herencias?

todos os membros de sua numerosa família, por mais moços que fossem, acabaram, como ele dizia graciosamente ao seu senhor, por se colocar como um bicho-da-seda sobre as folhas do orçamento.

Les fruits de l'amour passent vite, ceux de l'art sont immortels.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

I truly believe that the ultimate measure of one's success in life is not what position you have occupied or how much money you have, but what kind of person you have become, what difference you have made to the people around you.