Quotes About Legacy

My parents came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people, all the way back to the very first poor people.

but I know somebody must be thinking about us because if they weren't we'd just disappear just like those Indians who used to climb the pueblos. Those Indians disappeared with food still cooking in the pot and air waiting to be breathed and they turned into birds or dust or the blue of the sky or the yellow of the sun. There they were and suddenly they were forgotten for just a second and for just a second nobody thought about them and then they were gone.

I realized that my mother had not taught us the tribal language because she knew her children would not be strong enough to carry the responsibility of being the last fluent speakers. She protected us from that spiritual burden. She protected us from that loneliness.

she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock

And the tombstone will never answer. Because the dead have only the voices we give to them.

My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance.

More and more, he heard his spine playing stick games through his skin, singing old dusty words, the words of all his years.

Because I want to be remembered.

Elvis Presley is still showing up in 7-11 stores across the country, even though he's been dead for years, so I figure music just might be the most important thing there is.

Even Crazy Horse, the famous Oglala warrior, was named for his father. But nobody called him Junior, for rather logical reasons. "Look! There's the most feared and mysterious Indian of all time! Behold! It is Junior!

On a reservation, Indian men who abandon their children are treated worse than white fathers who do the same thing. It's because white men have been doing that forever and Indian men have just learned how. That's how assimilation can work.

I know that death is never added to death; it multiplies.

My mother and grandmother's conversation doesn't belong in the cloud.   That old song is too sacred for the Internet.   So

What scares me least? The Afterlife. Really. Who cares? I'm going to be a good person no matter what is supposed to happen after I die.

I guess every song has a special meaning for someone somewhere. Elvis Presley is still showing up in 7-11 stores across the country, even though he's been dead for years, so I figure music just might be the most important thing there is.

All I owe the world is my art

We are all given one thing by which our lives are measured, one determination. Mine are the stories which can change or not change the world. It doesn't matter which as long as I continue to tell the stories.

In your past lies your future. [Acheron Parthenopaeus]

What made you immortal? (Nick) Really good DNA. (Acheron)

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.' (Talon)

We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts – I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary)

The Ambrose Malachai will never be forgotten. But it's up to you as to how he'll always be remembered.

Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother.

But I feel its beauty here and I know there is not a lovelier, more precious child in this world than you and your cousins. I am glad that though someone did me grossly wrong, my final mark on this world is not one of countering hurt with more hurt but is one of love and friendship. We will always be known by our actions. Let them always be good ones. (Theo, Geary's Grandfather)