Quotes About Legacy

Your mum is gone, but you are a part of her legacy – while you live, she will never really be dead. You have her blood in your veins, and her wisdom in your mind. Your child will be a part of her even though she is gone.

They didn't mean that the sins a parent might commit would be visited on their offspring. The words actually meant that the mistakes a parent made while they were bringing up their children would be visited on the second, the third, even the fourth generation.

all you had at the end of the day was your name, and that made it the more important because it was something you either respected or you were ashamed of. Your name was all you had, the only thing that you couldn't ever deny.

Your name was the only thing you ever really owned, for good or for bad; that choice was yours.

Keep the story alive," he said. "Memory cheats death.

Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.

One is greater than death, Grandmother said, and that is life. For life will be, and work as he may, death must bow in the end to life. When death came for my daughter, life gave me you to comfort my heart.

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

You will be different. Sometimes you will feel like an outcast. But you will never be alone. You will make my strength your own. You will see my life through your eyes, as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father, and the father becomes the son.

You gotta be there. So let me kill you and get on with it. I mean, everyone gets to kill a Robin eventually. And today it's my turn.

If they ask you, 'What is the evidence of your father in you?' say to them, 'It is motion and rest.'"93

Things are not incorruptible, but offspring104 are. Nothing can receive incorruptibility unless it is an offspring.105 And whatever cannot receive certainly cannot give.

The tongue am I of those who lived before me, as those that are to come will be the voice of my unspoken thoughts. And so who shall be applauded if the song be sweet, if the prophecy be true?

the empire created the emperors – not the other way round.

Among all the things we fancy we have inherited from ancient Rome, from drains to place names, or the offices of the Catholic Church, the calendar is probably the most important and the most often overlooked.

Caesar corrected the error and, for the future, established a year with 365 days, with an extra day inserted at the end of February every four years. This was a far more significant outcome of his visit to Egypt than any dalliance with Cleopatra.

It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors.

When we look, for example, at the Parthenon for the first time, we look at it already knowing that generations of architects chose precisely that style of building for the museums, town-halls, and banks of most of our major cities.

This one commemorates a man called Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus (the last name means 'bearded', 'long-beard' or perhaps 'beardy')

I produced offspring. I sought to equal the deeds of my father. I won the praise of my ancestors so that they are glad that I was born to them.

Polybius more than 150 years earlier

is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors.

the idea of being spoken about by posterity pushes me to some sort of hope for immortality

Roman military expansion drove Roman sophistication.