Quotes About Legacy

Unknowing, the fate of the old had crept up on him, and now he'd become the one who provided strategy and expected others to implement it—the one they all rightly bitched about in the pub after work. When did this happen to me?

There it was, plain and beautifully simple, five generations down the line. :)

And he saved them. My son. Because of him, they will live, and have children, and laugh. But it hurts! That's because we're human, more so than Adamists can ever be. Our empathy means we can never hide from what we feel, and that's good.

You die a sergeant

paterfamilias.

For my children. For you. So that you could be safe. So that what happened to them," he nods toward the photo of his mother and his sister, "would never happen to you. Because it will never really go away, this thing. It goes underground for a generation or two, but always reemerges.

It was the love. The name was a code, a cipher for the love you carried with you until you yourself were gone and your remembering was done.

final resolvía la lucha del rey al transformarle del tipo de persona capaz de cabrear a su propia jauría en un guardián honrado del código fluvial, que sus descendientes respetarían a partir de ese momento.

On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.

If you consider all the unpleasantness you encounter while you're alive, it seems improbable that it would all come to an end simply because you're dead.

If you want to know who the real heroes of world history are, just look at the mothers.

To the earth shall you return.

Roman language, Latin, is the foundation of not just Italian, but also of French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. Latin also left a deep impression on non-Latin languages, such as English. Even after Latin fell out of everyday use, it remained the unifying language of learning, particularly medicine and science.

By virtue of its unbounded aggression, Roman imperialism was ultimately responsible for its own destruction.

Having sliced Odovacar in half in early spring 493, Theoderic ruled his Italian kingdom for the next thirty-three years, until his own death on 30 August 526.

Took the end of the world to make us kings for a day.

inside so as not to offend the ancestors.

Remember me," whispers the dust.

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Perhaps the simplest way of describing the situation would be to say that, two and a half thousand years ago in the West, we were given a gift — and in our childishness we threw away the instructions for how to use it. We felt we knew what we were playing with. And, as a result, western civilization may soon be nothing but an experiment that failed.

Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.

And Cain had relations with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain built a city and named it after his son Enoch.

Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methusael, and Methusael was the father of Lamech.