Quotes About Legacy

He had never known the Atreides grandfather whose name this child had taken.

Sietch Tabr is mine. I rule here. I am a Naib of the Fremen. Without me there would have been no Muad'Dib. These twins, now . . . through Chani, their mother and my kinswoman, my blood flows in their veins. I am there with Muad'Dib and Chani and all the others. What have we done to our universe?

She rejoiced that House Atreides had survived, but the things-that-might-have-?been were beyond bearing.

profound drive shared by all creatures who are faced with death—the drive to seek immortality through progeny.

The race knows its own mortality and fears stagnation of its heredity.

The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less.

People fear me. I never wanted to be feared. I don't want to be a part of history, I just want to be loved... and to love.

Se dice que un día vendrá un hombre que, con el don de la droga

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself—a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred. —THE APOCRYPHA OF MUAD'DIB

He began to realize that there might be a certain fastidious courtesy in dying without a trace - no remains, nothing, and an entire planet for a tomb.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They re-create the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well. —LETO II, HIS VOICE, FROM DAR-ES-BALAT

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. —FROM "COLLECTED SAYINGS OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

Muad'dib rules everywhere, he said. Arrakis is not my destination, she insisted. Arrakis is the destination of everyone, he said.

you can't get rid of Shakespeare without abolishing the very notion of literature.

I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family...

I want you to remember, Clark. In all the years to come, in your most private moments, I want you to remember, my hand, at your throat, I want you to remember, the one man who beat you.

Remember us, Should any free soul come across this place, In all the countless centuries yet to be, May our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones, Go tell the Spartans, passerby: That here by Spartan law, we lie.

In ten years, I've never felt so calm. So right. This would be a fine death. . . A fine death. But there are the thousands to think of. . . and Harvey. . . I have to know.

Baby one night somebody Going to strike a match on a tombstone And read your name.

Like a dog! he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.

Faptele dumneavoastra vor lasa poate urme adînci de pasi în zapada, dar atît.

Hayat?n ve ümidin düÅŸman? bir ortam içinde yazma eylemi kiÅŸinin kendi ipini çekmeden önce vasiyetini yazma isteÄŸinden baÅŸka bir ÅŸey olam?yordu.

On se bojao da ?e ga stid nadživeti.