Quotes About Legacy

And such too is the grandeur of the dooms/We have imagined for the mighty dead.

As the generation of leaves, so too is the generation of men. And as for leaves, the winds scatter some on the earth, But the new wood puts forth others, and spring comes again. So it is with men: as one generation is born, another dies.

The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

Why would a vampire create a younger vampire if there was a possibility the young one might end up destroying the old one?' Stephin stared. 'If you can explain to me how this is different from parenting in general I might know how to answer that.

Like ashes from a volcanic eruption, the legacy of the St. Domingue slave revolt was carried throughout the Atlantic world by what the poet William Wordsworth called "the common wind.

brain activity in a heartbeat. All of that says Richard. But the DNA in consort with the paper trail of a genealogy available only for royalty says this was him. Richard III is now the oldest person to be unequivocally identified in death.

from a time when there were at least four human species on Earth right up to the kings of Europe into the eighteenth century.

there is virtually no trace of the Danes in the British genome. Compared to the Angles' and Saxons' and even the Norwegians' genetic legacy in the north of Scotland, there's an absence of Danish DNA despite a long adventure

on a long enough timeline we're all inbred.

We know that some early humans migrated into Asia and Europe within the last quarter of a million years, but their dominion outside of Africa was temporary, and they probably leave no descendants today. Around seventy thousand years ago another group of people drifted away from Africa, and the process of setting down new roots all over this planet began.

Repository for Germinal Choice in Escondido, California

One fifth of people alive a millennium ago in Europe are the ancestors of no one alive today. Their lines of descent petered out at some point, when they or one of their progeny did not leave any of their own.

Nobodies from the past are being elevated to some of the most important people who ever lived.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

The path of a single man can be difficult but the results of what he does can be great.

As I'm so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is, I ache with everything in me to make it count, so that when I finally cross the finish line, I'll hear the words, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.

In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.

The real and genuine wisdom that man can benefit most is the one which leads to everlasting happiness after death ,anything else is vanity.

Your days are short here this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

After all, who remembers the Armenians?

My spirit will rise from the grave and the world will see i was right.

The amount of money that is in your bank at the time of your death is the extra work you did which wasn't necessary

German youth, do not forget that you are a German," and "Remember, little girl, that one day you must be a German mother.

On the whole earth there's no being, no substance, and probably no human institution that doesn't end by growing old. But it's in the logic of things that every human institution should be convinced of its everlastingness—unless it already carries the seed of its downfall. The hardest steel grows weary. Just as it is certain that one day the earth will disappear, so it is certain that the works of men will be overthrown.