Quotes About Legacy

It's not easy is it? Being a great man's son. You'd thought that would come with all kinds of advantages - with borrowed admiration, and respect. But it's only as easy as it is for the seeds of a great tree, trying to grow in its choking shadow. Not many make it to the sunlight for themselves.

It is not how you die, but how you lived, that counts.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present,

No one cares about the past any more,' he whispered. 'They don't see that you can't have a future without a past.' How

Jezal swallowed and hunched his shoulders, watching the chunks of long dead wood file slowly past like rows of tombstones. "I don't like this," he muttered under his breath. "You think I do?" Bayaz frowned grimly over at him. "You think any of us do? Men must sometimes do what they do not like if they are to be remembered. It is through struggle, not ease, that fame and honor are won. It is through conflict, not peace, that wealth and power are gained.

One task is to identify what for some time I have referred to as the "epistemic politics" that often sever colonial pasts from their contemporary translations

this book attempts to tackle: the temporal and affective space in which colonial inequities endure and the forms in which they do so.

colonial entailments do not have a life of their own. They wrap around contemporary problems; adhere in the logics of governance; are plaited through racialized distinctions; and hold tight to the less tangible emotional economies of humiliations, indignities, and resentments

Even now, I found it difficult to believe that my father could or might be dying. He had always been a strong man, a good leader. No one had ever seen him with his head bowed in despair or defeat, no one had ever seen him slump in resignation, nor had anyone ever had even so much as a hint from him that he might ever give up. It was hard to picture all that strength drained from my father's body.

Make sure you live a meaningful life.

I miss you, Daddy. I wish you could have seen me as a mother. It would have made you smile.

for a person is so profound that it's part of who you are, then the absence of the person becomes part of your DNA, your bones,

How Leo Tolstoy had inspired Mahatma Gandhi, who had in turn inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. William

You'll all set sail, as you should, and leave your mother and me here. It's a tale as old as time.

She was her father's rocket.

You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history,

Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.

The past gets carried with us. It's always there.

Henry III (1207–1272) was the son and successor of King John, reigning for 56 years from 1216 until his death.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.

Any of us who have raised children know, as John F. Kennedy once said, that "to have children is to give hostages to fate.

Lord, you call me to live in the world without embracing the ways of the world. Help me to live in a way that preserves my freedom to follow you wherever and however you lead. If I should leave behind a monument, may it be a reminder to others of faith and not foolishness.

If Gran, Da, and Gil were alive, they were alive inside her: when Da told her how to scythe, when Gran praised her for gathering herbs, when Gil said, "I like beginnings.