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Quotes About Legacy

For the first time I realize how perilous peace can be. I appreciate the tightrope that my grandfather has spent his whole life trying to walk. And now, more than ever, I grow terrified that I'm going to make us all fall down.
~ Ally Carter
The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back.
~ Ally Carter
Money comes and goes, darling. Tiaras are forever. So are titles." Gabrielle
~ Ally Carter
Five decades on the throne and this is how they treat me, Ms. Blakely. Makes me wish I'd been a teacher." His voice drops. He almost sounds a little wistful. "I would have liked to have been a teacher.
~ Ally Carter
I'm the solution to a two-hundred-year-old
~ Ally Carter
Hale let out a slow whistle of admiration, and Kat remembered that, for all of his resources and talent, the most dangerous thing about W.W. Hale the Fifth was that, when he grew up, he wanted to be her father.
~ Ally Carter
Standing on Abiram Stein's front steps, facing the street, Kat felt very different from when she'd stood in that same spot forty minutes earlier, facing the door. Suspicions were facts. Fears were real. And ghosts were alive as she stood where her mother had once stood, unsure how to follow in her footsteps.
~ Ally Carter
I kicked and I made contact. "You know, Ms Morgan, that was your mother you just hammered.
~ Ally Carter
I'm out of the family business. Or haven't you heard? " "Fine." Hale crossed his arms and sank deeper into the seat. He leaned his head back and closed his eyes. Kat could have sworn he was already half asleep when he asked, "But are you out of the family?
~ Ally Carter
It is Pau-kala. The branch is still bare. The old tree's leaves will never return - they are a memory and a song. But there is a sapling, there is a sapling right beside that old tree, and it's trembling with promise. There will be a spring again.
~ Alma Alexander
Ella ya es inmortal, pero todavía está viva.
~ Almudena Grandes
La Historia con mayúscula la escriben siempre los vencedores, pero su versión no tiene por qué ser eterna. Algunos países europeos, como Polonia o Hungría, han sabido integrar el fracaso de sus luchadores por la libertad en el patrimonio de su orgullo nacional, asumiendo que ciertas derrotas, lejos de implicar deshonor, pueden ser más honrosas que muchas victorias.
~ Almudena Grandes
A veces pienso que el mayor delito del franquismo ha sido ése, secuestrar la memoria de un país enterio, desgajarlo del tiempo, impedir que tu, que eres mi nieta, la hija de mi hijo, puedas creer como cierta mi propia historia...
~ Almudena Grandes
Lo que diferencia al hombre del animal es que el hombre es un heredero y no un mero descendiente. José Ortega y Gasset
~ Almudena Grandes
Hace treinta años los hijos heredaban la pobreza, pero también la dignidad de sus padres, una manera de ser pobres sin sentirse humillados, sin dejar de ser dignos ni de luchar por el futuro.
~ Almudena Grandes
President Thomas S. Monson (1927–2018), sixteenth President of the Church, explained that your blessing "literally contains chapters from your book of eternal possibilities.
~ Alonzo L. Gaskill
I am driven by a profound belief in taking meaningful actions that advance the wellbeing of humanity and his environment. I believe that each individual has a role to play regardless of the level, capacity, or sector involved, for we all share a collective responsibility. My lifelong career objective is to embody the principles of living, loving, learning, and leaving a lasting legacy that positively impacts the world.
~ Aloo Denish
The pages of life's book turn swiftly, so let us fill them with stories worth sharing. ~Aloo Denish
~ Aloo Denish
Porque la muerte, lo que suprime no es a los seres cercanos y que son nuestra vida misma. Lo que la muerte se lleva para siempre es su recuerdo, la imagen que se va borrando, diluyendo, hasta perderse, y es entonces cuando empezamos nosotros a morir también.
~ Alvaro Mutis
Pero toda rebeldía contra la imagen paterna, magnificada y opresora, se paga durante el resto de la vida. La única manera de salir de ese laberinto, por el que todos nos internamos alguna vez, es llegar a la convicción de que al padre, en vez de substituirlo, hay que intentar prolongarlo, en la medida de nuestras propias fuerzas y de nuestros propios demonios. No es fácil, ni suele ser grato, pero no existe otro camino para enfrentar el reto de vivir nuestra propia vida.
~ Alvaro Mutis
My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.
~ Alveda King
Clancy Goldfinger, former managing partner of Catchum, Killum, and Eatum, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1951 and clerked for Judge XXX and Justice YYY, passed away Tuesday.")
~ Alvin E. Roth
Colin smirks, "The only things I have to do are stay queer and die.
~ Alvin Orloff
And here I am, dying in my bed, like cattle die. May the eyes of cowards never sleep.
~ al-Walid, Khalid ibn