Quotes About Legacy

This will not be the end of the clans as long as I have breath in my body"~jayfeather

My past is an echo of my perfect present being the shadow of my stellar future.

Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed among your family, no one can accompany you into the void.

The sins of the Fathers that are visited upon the Sons is not ignorance, but indifference to the truth.

Why do all great men, live not long enough, to see their greatness?

And in the end, its not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

The late international Bible teacher Derek Prince, the spiritual father who

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on…Each of us when we read a great piece of literature is a little more human than befor

The blood feuds of today's Ulster— and their legacy in the journey of America's Scots-Irish— have their roots in a decision made in 1610 by King James I of England, who also reigned as James VI of Scotland, to form a Protestant plantation on Irish soil.

O black and unknown bards of long ago,How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?How, in your darkness, did you come to knowThe power and beauty of the minstrels' lyre?

But the more she talked, the less was I reassured, and I stopped her by asking: "Well, mother, am I white? Are you white?" She answered tremblingly: "No, I am not white, but you—your father is one of the greatest men in the country—the best blood of the South is in you—" This suddenly opened up in my heart a fresh chasm of misgiving and fear

O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

Treachery and acrimony are the wares that endure in the family heirs."

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Words: First practice leaving no traces. Then practice leaving things better than you found them.

My inspiration comes from the beauty of the past. That's where I am completely omnipotent. -Louise Bourgeois

Because what he couldn't know, what no one at that time could know, was what would happen after the death of old King Sverker.

The motto of Groton—cui servire est regnare, "to serve is to rule"—was part of his and Roosevelt's DNA. On

He remembered the gravestone of a woman parishioner in the churchyard of St. John's in the Grove. DEMURE AT LAST, it read. He thought that the single most definitive and amusing epitaph he'd ever come across.

Perhaps, he thought, we should all live as if we're dying.

A loved one from us has gone, A voice we love is stilled. A place is vacant in our home, Which never will be filled. Estelle Woodhouse, 1898-1987