Quotes About Legacy

My son's name is Temujin," he said. "He will be iron.

I will finish what I have begun. I have said it. This is my khanate.

Every man, who has fought in a battle, is now ash, every sword has been eaten by rust, but the lessons still must be learned

He holds blood in his right hand," she whispered. "He will walk with death all his life.

the Spartans would want it known how they had died. Of all things, they considered the manner of death mattered as much as the manner of life.

He is no fool, Kublai. He understands far better than you realize. The khan's vast armies cannot return to being herdsmen, not anymore. He is riding the tiger now, my son. He dare not climb down.

If he had learned anything from his father's fate, it was to win, no matter how you did it. It was not important if someone else was hurt, or killed. If you won, you would be forgiven anything. You could be taken from a stinking ger and forced through the ranks until a thousand men followed your orders as if they came from the khan himself. Blood and talent. The nation was built on both.

I have not given thought to what comes after the battles. Perhaps I will rule. Is that not the right of a conqueror?

The world will hear my name." When he spoke again, it was so quiet that Kokchu had to strain to hear him. "This is not a time of death, shaman. We are one people and there will be no more battles between us. I will summon us all. Cities will fall to us, new lands will be ours to ride. Women will weep and I will be pleased to hear it.

When we meet again, Spartan,' he murmured aloud, in prayer, 'when you ask me what we did after your death, I will not be ashamed. I promise you that. I will bring them back.

Anyone can change the world. But no one can change it forever. In a hundred years, no one you know will be alive. What will it matter then if we fought or just spent our days sleeping in the sun?

All men die, Genghis. All. Think what it means for a moment. None of us are remembered for more than one or two generations.

How you raise your sons and daughters matters. The wife who warms you at night matters. The joy you take in being alive, the pleasure of strong drink, companionship and stories. All that matters, but when you are dust, other men go on without you.

History was more than just stories, he reminded himself as the men walked forward with their burdens. It taught lessons as well.

There is no greater ordeal for a gifted men than to raise a son

We will survive this, my sons. We will survive until you are men, and when Eeluk is old, he will wonder if it is you coming for him every time he hears hooves in the darkness.

I thought a man could throw his best years against enemies and then die, feared and loved both. I still think that. But when I am gone, the cities will rebuild and they will not remember me.

Time and age extinguish, even, the greatest flame

It's not bad to know history, commander. Every generation don't need to overcome again already existing art. Especially if the hardest part of the work is already done.

For a moment, he almost wished Jochi alive so he could tell him how different things were, how his world had grown larger that the small inheritance they had fought over. The horizons were wide enough for them all, he realized now, but the wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.

it is a truth of historical fiction that all the characters are long dead; all the lives and stories have ended, and usually not well.

Sometimes in our attempt to give children what we did not have, we forget to give our children what we did have.

To abandon children, any children, after divorce is to teach them that love is not only conditional, but also circumstantial. Some legacy that is. Divorce is hard enough on children, our

I want to be all used up when I die. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I've got a hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.