Quotes About Legacy

I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy.

It was one of the most pernicious fallacies, common the world over: old ways are best. But old ways can outlast their usefulness. Old ways can live on pointlessly in worlds that have no room for them.

This was for her path, for her freedom, for her life and family. To make her dead da proud. She was strong. She was royal. She would set her will. She would do this.

Sometimes people have to do new things, things that have never been done before. Everything your foremothers did was new once.

All the things that make you you, your clarity and solidity and certainty, come from this. You can actually reach out and touch your past. It's in the wood, in the cold, clear water of the fjord and the hard rock of the mountain. And the wood and the fjord and the mountain are in you, clear and strong and massive." She looked at me then, reached out to trace the line of my cheekbone, my nose, my jaw. "Aud, Aud, Aud.

Beside her, Edwin stirred. Rædwald the overking was dead and under the dirt. Now Edwin was overking. Hild could feel him swelling like bread.

When a time came to carve her name, would it be Dawnged, girl of Ystrad, T´ywi or Tâl, payment to Elen, or would she one day find her true name?

This is your wyrd," Hild said. "You'll be a queen. You'll have children.

She stood alone at the empty heart of a gone god, staff in the crook of her arm, one hand on her seax and the other on her cross. She would not wear and weather. She was Yffing. She would be totem and token for her people, the light of the world.

This is a craftsman cabin, built for my great-grandfather by masters, not one of the more usual settler's shacks made from whatever came to hand and which have long since rotted away, and good riddance." His smile was real this time. "You always have been a snob, Torvingen." "I like well-made things.

It occurred to Hild that both Hereswith and Cian now had their own paths. She had only her mother's dream.

Hild remembered her mother's words exactly-the light of the world must remember everything.

I never knew my father," she said again, slowly. She could only tell the truth. "Of the rest, I may not speak.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

The modern world seems invincible. Like the extinct dinosaurs.

Sensuality is a cultural legacy of the ancient world. Societies where the Greco-Roman legacy is being wiped out, or where it does not exist, only know sentimentalism and sexuality.

The gesture, rather than the word, is the true transmitter of traditions.

Modern man no longer dares to preach that the individual is born as a blank slate. Too many mishaps have taught him that we are the oppressed heirs of our family, our race, our blood. Blood is not an innocent liquid, but the viscous paste of history.

The terrorist is the liberal's grandchild.

Every civilization is a dialogue with death.

No pertenezco a un mundo que perece. Prolongo y transmito una verdad que no muere.

Civilization is not an endless succession of inventions and discoveries, but the task of ensuring that certain things last.

El Occidente habrá muerto, cuando deje de ser la presencia de Grecia en un alma cristiana.