Quotes About Legacy

He was good at getting her sister pregnant. That dude had super sperm that made him a gold medalist in making babies. Her sister had five children, more than halfway to having the starting lineup for a baseball team.

Family business stays in the family, her mother had always said right after she'd told them, When all is said and done, family is all you got.

Family business stays in the family," was a mantra Maxine had heard all her life.

She is my companion on my many genealogical hunts, and I will be forever indebted to her for the knowledge that she bequeathed to me. And I can think of nobody I would rather traipse through a cemetery with, and that says a lot about a person.

We slew the goliath of raciism,but, we now must contend with his offspring.

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.

Byron wrote 'The glory and the nothing of a name

When you once get a reputation, or it gets you, you're stuck with it for good.

Just because they aren't with us doesn't mean we don't have parents anymore.

But then Mago touched my belly button and added something to the story my mother had never told me. She said that my umbilical cord was like a ribbon that connected me to Mami. She said, "It doesn't matter that there's a distance between us now. That cord is there forever.

He smelled more powerfully like himself now that he was dead than he had when he was alive.

It was so much easier to knock down than build up: a city raised over millennia could be razed in a day; the life of a man ended in a second's crack. In years to come, Edmund and his children would know the names of planes and tanks and battles and invasions and recall with facility the atrocities of the age, the names of those who committed them. But would any of them be able to name a single repairer of the breach or fixer of broken walls?

5,000–3,000 BC)

You came into this world with your love, and it is the only thing you take with you. While you are here, every time you choose the positive, every time you choose to feel good, you are giving your love, and with it you light up the world. And everything you can wish for, everything you can dream of, everything you love will follow you wherever you go.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving." Albert Einstein (1879–1955) NOBEL PRIZE–WINNING PHYSICIST

Ah, but it was your great-grandmother who went around subjugating half the world. Empress of all I survey, and all that. You must have that quality somewhere in your makeup." "I've never had a change to subjugate anybody yet, so I can't really say," I confessed.

I tore off the brown paper wrapping from the large parcel and found myself looking at my own face. It was so startling that I almost dropped the picture. It was even more startling when I read the inscription: "Joanna Langley. 1749–1823.

I am Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, daughter of the Duke of Glen Garry and Rannoch—known to my friends as Georgie. My grandmother was the least attractive of Queen Victoria's daughters, who consequently never managed to snare a Romanov or a Kaiser, for which I am truly grateful and I expect she was too.

My father in turn had done his duty and married the daughter of a frightfully correct English earl. She gave birth to my brother, looked around at her utterly bleak Highland surroundings, and promptly died.

Kurt Cobain said that.

Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.

Diamonds are forever, and so are the Flairs.

Empieza por legar sus bienes al Hospital Italiano, a condición de que no se los emplee en el sostenimiento de la sala de mujeres, que son, a su juicio, seres en extremo perjudiciales

A vida passa e não fica, nada deixa e nunca regressa.