Quotes About Legacy

Never forget that half your genetic material came from me. Perhaps even the part that gave you your conscience.

As Zie Zen's ashes flew on the wind, so did the time of those who had been born in freedom, caged in Silence, only to see it fall. Now . . . now it was the time of those who had been born in Silence, fought for freedom.

He has little use for scholars, but you are his sole grandchild, and as such, he is willing to overlook your failings as long as you conduct yourself as a princess of the court during your time of service. Do not disappoint him, Andromeda. Your grandfather's mercy is not endless.

Nunca tendré un hijo, Galen. Keir no puede prometerme que no le pasaré mi discapacidad. -Jessamy

So much history behind and between people, one moment was always a nasty echo of another time, most of who you were already scripted.

Sadly, that's how life is—the moments are fleeting—in the next breath, they are just memories. And, at the end of our lives, we are left with only that—a collection of memories to warm our hearts, to give us direction, and to offer us a safe haven when the storms of life are overwhelming. But some don't even have that.

And Laura raised the microphone and said, "Hello, everybody, I'm C.C's daughter.

Maybe you heard of me. I used to be famous, in a roundabout fashion.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

I am my own tapestry, then, made as I could for myself. Some holes in my fabric have been made by others, some torn by chance. Missing threads in the weave represent all those I have loved who died so long before me

Thoughts to words, words to paper. A gift we give ourselves, both now and later.

Lydon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family to him minutes before, stood in his presence on Air Force One.

Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family to him minutes before, stood in his presence on Air Force One.

assassinated just four days before. "It was like

occupying the office Hoover once

To one degree or another every president is haunted by those who went before, but few so literally as Johnson. No president had ever witnessed the slaying of his predecessor or endured such a brutal transfer of power.

In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. "Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Then Cain founded a city, which he named Enoch, after his son.

And he was equally sure that he would never stop loving. He would go to his grave married in his heart to Edith Cushing, and perhaps, if there were such things as ghosts and the fates were kind, he would be able to watch over her, and her children, and her grandchildren and keep her free from danger.

Takes more than beer in your blood to take the English out of you.

Your childhood stays with you all your life, no matter where you go.

Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.

Populated by what many dismissed as "useless lubbers" (conjuring the image of sleepy and oafish men lolling about doing nothing), North Carolina forged a lasting legacy as what we might call the first white trash colony. Despite being English, despite having claimed the rights of freeborn Britons, lazy lubbers of Poor Carolina stood out as a dangerous refuge of waste people, and the spawning ground of a degenerate breed of Americans.14

Kill a Mockingbird (1962), a classic portrait of the legacy of slavery and racial segregation in the South.