Quotes About Legacy

When you do nothing, what do your children inherit? They inherit, nothing.

That was an age of great men doing what was right...This is an age of little men doing what they must.

He tried to tell himself the dead are dead, but he knew Jenner had been right. Their ghosts stick in the minds of those that knew them, loved them, hated them. Those that killed them most of all.

If you're a good man, and you try to think about what the right thing is every day of your life, and you build things to be proud of so bastards can come and burn them in a moment, and you make sure and say thank you kindly each time they kick the guts out of you, do you think when you die, and they stick you in the mud, you turn into gold?' 'What?' 'Or do you turn to fucking shit like the rest of us?

That was the age of great men, doing what was right.

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

Rejoice in what you have. Power, wealth, fame, they are ghosts! They are like the breeze, impossible to hold. There is no grand destination. Every path ends at the Last Door. Revel in the sparks one person strikes from another.

A sword has a voice.

All too often when we topple something hateful, rather than breaking it and starting afresh, we raise ourselves up in its place.

Either you are a part of my future, or a relic of the past.

The thing about history is you don't know what the right side is till long afterwards, and by then it hardly matters." "That's the sort o' thing you hear from folk who know they're on the wrong side.

That blood only makes more blood. That settling one score only starts another. That war gives a bastard of a sour taste to any man that's not half-mad, and it only gets worse with time.' She didn't disagree. 'So you know why I'd rather be free of it. Make something grow. Something to be proud of, instead of just breaking. Be . . . a good man, I guess.

Men must sometimes do what they do not like if they are to be remembered. It is through struggle, not ease, that fame and honour are won. It is through conflict, not peace, that wealth and power are gained.

You were a hero round these parts. That's what they call you when you kill so many people the word murderer falls short.

The Great Leveller,' Dogman whispered to himself, since he was in a thoughtful frame of mind. That's what the hillmen call him. Death, that is. He levels all differences. Named Men and nobodies, south or north. He catches everyone in the end, and he treats each man the same. Seemed

It's an easy thing to make a man a carcass. He knew a thousand ways to do it. But once you've done it, there's no going back. One minute he's a man, all full up with hopes, and thoughts, and dreams. A man with friends, and family, and a place where he's from. Next minute he's mud.

What do we leave behind but things not done, not said, not finished? Empty clothes, empty rooms, empty spaces in the ones who knew us? Mistakes never made right and hopes rotted down to nothing?

Men must sometimes do what they do not like if they are to be remembered.

Every war carries within it the seeds of the next.

My father used to say the seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.

Perhaps this would be a great day, the first of a great era, and he would be proud in after years to have had his part in it. Even if his part had been a dark one. Some men, after all, can only play dark parts. - Shenkt

La historia está llena de hombres buenos muertos.

Moartea ne a?teapt? pe to?i. Nimic nu dureaz? o ve?nicie. Iar scopul omului în via?? e s? încerce s? fac? totul cât mai bine.

I will ask you once to put the dark-skinned girl down and leave." Crandle snorted. "And if we don't?" That one eye narrowed slightly. "Then, long after we are gone to the goddess, the grandchildren of the grandchildren of those who witness will whisper fearful stories of the way I broke you.