Quotes About Legacy

Over the course of time, their successive readings will question and enrich it. Thus the work will no longer belong to the author; he will be dispossessed of it. We could even say that the author will no longer belong to himself either—which corresponds to the most modest and ambitious of dreams he is able to formulate and to the wisest and wildest illusion he can maintain: to ignore age and let time run its course. To write is to die a little, but a little less alone.

A symbolic way of coming full circle in a world where representations of heredity express a substantial form of continuity between generations in other respects as well.

lineage is only the normal marker of passing time.

Five minutes before his death, Monsieur de La Palisse was still alive.

How different would your life be if you lived as if today were your last?

Just because somebody is gone doesn't mean they don't exist anymore—with a little imagination, you're never alone.

Les gens qu'on aime ne meurent jamais tant qu'on les garde en soi.

When an old person dies, it's as though a library has burnt to the ground.

Partir n'est pas toujours un abandon, c'est aussi une façon de préserver ce qui a été vécu si l'on sait s'en aller avant qu'il ne soit trop tard.

The Danish conqueror had breathed his last on 3 February 1014,

creating a new kingdom called Dal Riata – a maritime empire

after 410, but that within a generation the villas and towns of Roman Britain had been almost completely abandoned.

So miraculous was their victory that the site of battle later became

warlord who would later become king of Norway.

king who had sons by more than one woman, leading to uncertainty about which of them would succeed him.

even a foundling like Scyld could quickly create a lordship that covered a large territory.

Hastein's wife and sons were

ruler of all these regions, Æthelstan has good claim to be considered the first king of England

in English.

The likeliest answer is that, by the time the Saxons came to settle in Britain, they found little that was worth preserving.

Charles the Bald, however, insisted that his daughter should receive the full royal honours.

But Æthelstan was less fortunate in death than Cuthbert, and during the Reformation his remains were destroyed

Æthelwulf's sons might well have worried that their new twelve-year-old stepmother

A visitor in the seventh century could still see triumphal arches, baths, palaces, theatres, bridges, aqueducts and fountains,