Quotes About Legacy

Do any wedding rings have happy stories?" Felix asked, sounding exasperated. "Well, yes. But those are the rings that usually end up on the fingers of happy corpses or being willed to happy people who wear them to their own weddings.

How could you commit suicide and not be a dick? Not leave detritus and wreckage behind you? But Tory—he'd taken it to the next level, hadn't he? Like sex, like drugs, like Star Wars, like anything he'd done.

Strange things our parents give us that we cannot give away or put on a shelf.

For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives.

Everything mortal has moments immortal

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past.

Your touch on the lives of others is like the touch of no one else. The "fingerprints" you leave on someone's heart can be traced back to no one but you. Amy Nappa, A Woman's Touch

Words often outlive the people who create them.

Where the years ahead had once seemed vague and unknowable, amorphous in shape and indeterminable in size, after my mother died I began to see a set of decades stacked neatly in front of me like bricks...When I allowed myself to think of the brevity of the time ahead of me, and the futility of spending any more of it on cooking and mending and gardening, it frightened me so much that I almost couldn't breathe.

Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei

According to Matthew, in order to understand Jesus, we must also understand King David.

history doesn't die and it doesn't not fall coma

The Friedman's ideas played an essential part in my life

you can't bribe the history to talk about you

Para cuidar y atender su educación —respondió el Conde Olar con voz reventante de orgullo, y una chispa de maligna socarronería—. Para adiestrarlo en el arte de la caza y de las armas». Era la primera vez que Sikrosio oía llamar a su padre arte a aquella suerte de desesperación colectiva que les obligaba a lanzarse unos sobre otros, espada en mano, en defensa de un palmo de tierra.

em pouco tempo poderemos ter o pesadelo de gerações que não conseguem entender a literatura atual porque não conhecem os clássicos que a procedem.

Why do we precious ointments shower, Nobler wines why do we pour, Beauteous flowers why do we spread, Upon the monuments of the dead? Nothing they but dust can show, Or bones that hasten to be so.

A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." ( About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling , New York Times, February 22, 1987)

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like and ancestral portrait.

Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die. April 9, 1916 Sorbonne

He left Penguinia impoverished and depopulated. The flower of the insula perished in his wars. At the time of his fall there were left in our country none but the hunchbacks and cripples from whom we are descended. But he gave us glory." "He made you pay dearly for it!" "Glory never costs too much," replied my guide.