Quotes About Legacy

Like many women, she was unable to fit exactly with her husband's view. Her feet hurt: she could not walk in the path of her husband's choosing. She tried to dance to please him, but she could not deny the pain. She is the ancestress of the royal house of Burgundy, and we, her descendants, still try to walk in the paths of men, and sometimes we too find the way unbearably hard.

We wind our way past Tower Hill and the scaffold that stands there, where my father ended his life, and I bow my head to his memory, and remember his hopeless struggle against Queen Mary. I think how glad he would be to see one daughter, at least, riding from the Tower to freedom, her baby beside her and her noble husband and heir following behind. It's bitter for me to think of him, and the death that he brought on Jane

What will happen when I am old and I can dance no more?

of the ancient cities of Greece and

She would have come to me if she could, she would have blessed this baby as she blessed all the others. I had a hard confinement without her here and I expect to miss her for the rest of my life. This baby came into the world just as my mother left it, and so I am naming her for my mother. And I can tell you this-I am absolutely sure that a Tudor Elizabeth is going to be one of the greatest monarchs that England has ever seen.

I must say tonight my greatest hope is to die in my bed, at peace with the world, as an old man.

Dos 70 ou mais familiares que vivam em Lemberg e Zolkiew quando a guerra começou, o único sobrevivente foi Leon.

Sofka: The Autobiography of a Princess, a book

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer them keeping in mind that you are writing your children's future with your answers.

Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.

she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her.

What earth will we leave to our children, and what children will we leave to our earth.

Quelle planète laisserons-nous à nos enfants, et quels enfants laisserons-nous à la planète. What earth will we leave to our children, and what children will we leave to earth.

I think that man was half-right. He is better off out of the game - but the game may not be better off without him. A man should not exist for himself alone. Life made an investment in him, and that investment was not paid off.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Books are immortal sons defying their sires.

Let parents then bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence.

Must not all things at last be swallowed up in Death?

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

those who have inherited their fortunes than of those who have acquired them; the makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children

Sinceramente? Èpico.

Jamais enganar alguém ou mentir, ainda que inadvertidamente, nem ser devedor, quer de sacrifícios aos deuses, quer de dinheiro a uma pessoa, e depois falecer sem nada recear.

what Shakespeare was to the drama of England, Plato was to ancient philosophy

We are all writing the story of our life. We want to know what it's "about," what are its themes and which theme is on the rise. We demand of it something deeper, or richer, or more substantive. We want to know where we're headed __not to spoil our own ending by ruining the surprise, but we want to ensure that when the ending comes, it won't be shallow. We will not have done something. We will not have squandered our time here.