Quotes About Legacy

But everyone had to die, and Father had given his life for the sake of a better world. If more Germans had had his courage the Nazis would not have triumphed. She wanted to do all the things he had done: to raise her children well, to make a difference to her country's politics, to love and be loved. Most of all, when she died, she wanted her children to be able to say, as she said of her father, that her life had meant something, and that the world was a better place for it.

en política, la memoria podía alargarse mucho.

Fitz probably had half a dozen bastards around the world, but Ethel's was the only one he knew of for sure.

A woman would always prefer to be remembered than forgotten.

She shook her head in perplexity. I'll never know where you got the idea that you were destined for greatness. She dropped the rest of the rabbit in the pot and begun to clean the underside of its skin. She would use the fur. You certainly didn't inherit it from your forebears.

Now, I call this nice. I got my daughter, my granddaughter, and my great-grandson, all in the same room. What more could a man ask of life?" He took a Welsh cake.

German women have to make hard choices. We're paying for the easy choices German men made fifteen years ago. Men such as my father, who thought Hitler would be good for business, and Heinrich's father, who voted for the Enabling Act. The sins of the fathers are visited on the daughters.

I'm glad to see that the crusading spirit of your forebears hasn't been entirely obliterated by rock and roll.

She wanted to do all the things he had done: to raise her children well, to make a difference to her country's politics, to love and be loved. Most of all, when she died, she wanted her children to be able to say, as she said of her father, that her life had meant something, and that the world was a better place for it.

Children who had inherited money, or a warehouse full of cloth or corn, were sometimes adopted by unscrupulous neighbors greedy to get their hands on the legacy. The prospect of something for nothing brought out the worst in people..

People were born and died, cities could rise and fall, wars began and ended, but Kingsbridge Cathedral would last until the Day of Judgement.

He would miss Pa, who all his life had told him things he would never forget, such as: "No matter how well you scarf two planks together, the joint is always the weakest part.

The Cathedral Builders by Jean Gimpel.

Petranilla turned to the girls. "Our father was descended from Tom Builder, the stepfather and mentor of Jack Builder, architect of Kingsbridge Cathedral," she said.

who ruled the great region of Mercia after her husband died. She fortified towns and won battles.

Dirigió una última mirada atrás. Su puente dominaba el panorama. Había transformado radicalmente la aldea. La mayoría de la gente ya no se refería a ella por su antiguo nombre de Dreng's Ferry. Ahora la llamaban King's Bridge, el puente del rey.

The Romance of Alexander.

Esta es la historia de mis abuelos y de los vuestros, de nuestros padres y de nuestras propias vidas. De alguna forma es la historia de todos nosotros.»   KEN FOLLETT

We're paying for the easy choices German men made fifteen years ago. Men such as my father, who thought Hitler would be good for business, and Heinrich's father, who voted for the Enabling Act. The sins of the fathers are visited on the daughters.

When I die pin me up against the sky.

Students were expected to learn hundreds of lines from the Greek and Roman classics, then, later, from poetry in their native tongues. This tradition has faded from our lives, and something powerful has been lost.

And so now, today, one cannot think of the greats—Kant, Hegel, Spinoza, Marx, Fichte, Freud, Nietzsche, Einstein, Schopenhauer, Leibniz, Schelling—the whole Germanic sphere—without thinking, at some point, of Auschwitz and Treblinka, Sobibor and Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and Chelmno. My God, they have names, as if they were human.

For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.