Frank Herbert's Children of Dune Quotes

Frank Herbert's Children of Dune is a television program that debuted in 1970 on Syfy. Frank Herbert's Children of Dune completed its run in 2003.

It features Brian Tyler (composer) in charge of musical score, and Arthur Reinhart as head of cinematography.

Each episode of Frank Herbert's Children of Dune is 266 minutes long.

Frank Herbert's Children of Dune Quotes

• (Unnamed) "We will have a corner on the scarcest commodity in the universe."
• (Unnamed) "You will have a corner in hell."

• (Unnamed) "Concentrate on visualizing the flow of time. It must move, not you."

• (Unnamed) "I am a desert creature."

• (The Preacher) "You have no idea who I am."

• (Unnamed) "Even your empire must spend its time, then die."

• (Unnamed) "To know the future is to be trapped by it, Grandmother. My father knew it but he couldn't escape it. I want more freedom than that. A universe of surprises, that is what I pray for."
• (Unnamed) "Is such a universe possible for someone like you?"
• (Unnamed) "Possible? Yes. But is it desireable? I have a difficult decision to make, Grandmother. Do I accpet the Atreides mystic, dress myself in our myths, live for my subjects and die for them? Or do I choose another path? A golden path? One that may change me, may change human destiny forever?"

• (Unnamed) "My skin is not my own."

• (Unnamed) "Behold me, family."
• (Unnamed) "I am Leto, Lion of Atreides, returned from the desert to announce Secher Nbiw; The Golden path, to rid humanity of the perversions done in Muad'dib's name and to save it from the abomination know as Alia"

• (Unnamed) "When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows."

• (Unnamed) "Alia's water. Take it into the desert and spread it upon the open sand in the midday sun. It is our way. Are you going back to Sietch Tabr?"
• (Unnamed) "I wish to return to our old ways."
• (Unnamed) "The deserts dying, Stil."
• (Unnamed) "And the Freman too, I'm afraid."
• (Unnamed) "We're about to go through the crucible, but we'll come out the other side. We always arise from our own ashes. Everything returns later in its -- changed form."
• (Unnamed) "Your grandfather's ring -- and your father's."
• (Unnamed) "And now the Fremen's; to remind you of Muad'Dib. To remind you that all humans make mistakes, and that all leaders are but human."

• (Unnamed) "We're about to go through the crucible. But we'll come out the other side. We always arise from our own ashes. Everything returns later in its changed form."

• (Unnamed) "How many nights -- I have sat on Dune, just like this, imagining a night, just like this, with -- with my father. Just the two of us -- talking and laughing. And how many nights I have gone to sleep on the cold floor of the sietch, dreaming of his arms around me, sheltering me from everything I was afraid of, everything I could not understand."
• (The Preacher) "Are you still a good fremin?"
• (Unnamed) "Yes."
• (The Preacher) "Then will you permit a blind man to go out into the desert, and find peace on his own terms?"
• (Unnamed) "Not yet."

• (Unnamed) "They say he has gone on a journey -- into the land where men walk without footprints. He will not be found. Yet all men will find him."

• (Unnamed) "Don't you find it interesting Jessica, how the sins of the mother bloom in the children they bear?"

• (Unnamed) "He runs and runs and runs. And when he's exhausted himself, he returns to me, puts his head in my lap and asks me to help him find a way to die."
• (Unnamed) "But why does he want to die?"
• (Unnamed) "To save himself from the sacrifices he must make, sacrifices for the future of us all"
• (Unnamed) "Then there is a place for me in this future?"
• (Unnamed) "Your blood was spared the day Leto came back to me."
• (Unnamed) "What of our marriage then?"
• (Unnamed) "As my mother was not wife, you shall never be husband."
• (Unnamed) "Politics."
• (Unnamed) "Politics. But in time, there my be love, which is more then my brother will have."
• (Unnamed) "One of us had to accept the agony. He was always the stronger. History is written on the sands of Arrakis. A chapter has ended, swept away by the whirlwind. One door has closed but another has opened and on the other side -- our future."

• (Unnamed) "I meddled in the future, in all possible futures, trying to create them. Instead they created me -- and I became trapped by it."

• (Unnamed) "I could have killed you."
• (Unnamed) "It wouldn't have been that easy."
• (Unnamed) "-- I didn't truly think it was possible, and then my mind melted away. I gave up fighting you, and it happened."
• (Unnamed) "It wasn't me you were fighting."
• (Unnamed) "It was myself. All that I've learned, all the nonsense I've imprisoned myself with; I feel -- I feel like I'm being reborn, like I'm standing on the threshold of something extraordinary."
• (Unnamed) "Para-Bindu balance, Farad'n. But only on the threshold."
• (Unnamed) "Patience?"
• (Unnamed) "Yes, patience. Remember, it's one thing to gain control of your perceptions, quite another to gain control of your desires."
• (Unnamed) "And if I succeed?"
• (Unnamed) "You'll find reality to be quite a bit different than you thought."

• (Unnamed) "I am his wife."
• (Unnamed) "You have his name. I am the one he calls wife."

• (Unnamed) "You insolent bastard."
• (Unnamed) "Let's not discuss your weaknesses now, mother."

• (Unnamed) "History is written on the sands of Arrakis. A chapter has ended, swept away by the whirlwind. One door has closed, but another has opened. And on the other side -- our future --"

• (Unnamed) "Remember the words of my father and my grandfather, your duke. They spoke to you of desert power. I am desert power and nothing can stop what is going to happen."

• (Unnamed) "Perhaps a slightly higher altitude would be advisable, Leto."
• (Unnamed) "Do you know, my father used to love being this close to the ground when he flew?"
• (Unnamed) "And you, of course, know this intuitively, don't you? Just like how you knew to fly it without any training."
• (Unnamed) "Don't forget your Bene Gesserit training, step-mother. Fear is the mind killer."
• (Unnamed) "I'm afraid she's about to let it pass through her."

• (Unnamed) "It is all we may ever have."

• (Unnamed) "I heard about your little stunt in the desert."
• (Unnamed) "Well, I prefer to think of it as expert flying but carry on --"
• (Unnamed) "With your encouragement of course."
• (Unnamed) "Our Father's memories were very instructive."
• (Unnamed) "Well, I suppose I should be grateful I don't have to tell your grandmother you were lost to a worm before she was supposed to see you."
• (Unnamed) "That would have been an unpleasant task, wouldn't it?"

• (Unnamed) "I hate this planet, Gurrney, stole both men I loved."

• (The Preacher) "You cannot control the future."

• (Unnamed) "Very well. I'm returning to the palace -- I have a wedding to attend."

• (Unnamed) "One day each of you will come face to face with the horror of your own existence. One day you will cry out for help. One day each of you will find yourselves alone."

• (Unnamed) "A myth I have allowed to persist until I am ready."

• (Unnamed) "What is the meaning of this?"
• (Priest) "Helen Gaies Mohiam of the Bene Gesserit, You have violated Mua'Dib's eternal order never to set foot on Arrakis again."
• (Unnamed) "I am not on Arrakis. I am in free space."
• (Fremen) "There is no such thing as free space where Mua'Dib rules."

• (The Preacher) "He was trapped by his own prophesy. A victim of what he knew he could not choose."

• (Unnamed) "I will not fear. Fear is the mind killer. I will face my fear, I will let it pass through me."

• (Unnamed) "Must you insist on sneaking away like this?"
• (Unnamed) "I still feel him"
• (Unnamed) ", Irulan, his presence; sometimes I even think I can hear his laughter in the wind."
• (Unnamed) "Mocking your decision to marry Farad'n I hope?"
• (Unnamed) "Why should he mock it?"
• (Unnamed) "I cannot stand by and let you be used as a pawn in Alia's schemes."
• (Unnamed) "Is that what you think? That I'm being used? That I've agreed to this marriage as part of some conspiracy with Alia?"
• (Unnamed) "No, but I know you Ghani, there is more to your decision than anyone else believes."
• (Unnamed) "Alia wants my grandmother back, Farad'n is simply the means."
• (Unnamed) "But what do you want?"
• (Unnamed) "Farad'n's blood on the wedding sheets, not mine."

• (Unnamed) "My loyalty is to House Atreides."
• (Unnamed) "Well, I am House Atreides."
• (Unnamed) "And what of your Aunt?"
• (Unnamed) "My Aunt is lost; lost to forces she could not control. Forces that wish to destroy House Atreides."
• (Unnamed) "What have you done to yourself?"
• (Unnamed) "I have made a choice, accepted a destiny, nothing more."
• (Unnamed) "My eyes can see it; but my mind refuses to believe."
• (Unnamed) "Believe it Gurney. Remember the words of my father and my grandfather, your Duke. They spoke to you of Desert Power. Well, I AM Desert Power, and nothing can stop what is going to happen."

• (Unnamed) "I did love your son, Jessica. And I would have made him a good wife. Instead I have satisfied myself being a good teacher to his children and friend. Nothing, nothing will harm them as long as I can prevent it. Do you understand?"

• (Unnamed) "Knowing there's a trap is the first step in evading it -- the first step along the Golden Path. Don't be afraid, Father. The answer is right in front of you."

• (Unnamed) "Put the weapon away, cast out. That is what you are? Adopting the cameleon colors of a smuggler tribe in order to keep your true identities hidden."
• (Unnamed) "Allowing us to survive, trading Spice."
• (Unnamed) "That's not all, is it? You're breeding Sand Trout. I've seen the holding pens. Selling Worms off-planet you hope to break the Atreides monopoly on Spice."
• (Unnamed) "It is dangerous for you to know these things."
• (Unnamed) "More dangerous for you; none of your Worms survive long away from Dune."
• (Unnamed) "Not yet."
• (Unnamed) "Not ever."
• (Unnamed) "You're already saturated with Spice."
• (Unnamed) "Then it can no longer harm me. I have survived the Crucible Sabiha. I have silenced the voices within that would have possessed me. Only I remain now; to do what I must do."
• (Unnamed) "And what is that?"
• (Unnamed) "Save the desert."

• (Unnamed) "I'm here, Father, as you knew I would be. We go forward; we go back. Don't be afraid. We're pre-born, my sister and I. Thanks to our mother and the spice -- thanks to you. Yes, Father, it is me. Use my eyes, Father. Let me see for you."

• (The Preacher) "This is no good."
• (Unnamed) "This is all the good we may ever have."

• (Unnamed) "The Golden Path is dangerous -- the desert storm that cannot be stopped. You will become that storm; the whirlwind. And nothing will be able to stop you, not even yourself."

• (Unnamed) "I hate you. I love you. I will never forgive you."

• (Unnamed) "Help me, Mother."
• (Unnamed) "Help yourself."

• (Unnamed) "So I have chosen. To make a world where human kind can create its own future from moment to moment -- Free of one man's vision -- Free from the perversions of the prophet's words. And free of future predetermined."

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