Legacy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
-- Aaliyah -
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
-- Abdul Kalam -
Make your life a story worth telling. You only get one shot at this existence, and one day when you’re gone the most important thing you’ll leave behind is the legacy of the life you lived. Make sure you make it a story you’re proud to have others tell.
-- Adam Braun -
The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America.
-- Adam Schiff -
The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.
-- Aesop Rock -
If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.
-- Agesilaus II -
History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.
-- Al Davis -
The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that's clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking very well.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal -
A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place?
-- Alexis Stewart -
The message for the American youth is that this is a great country and we need to make sure that we pass on a heritage, a lineage and a legacy of American exceptionalism to each and everyone of you so that you can enjoy all the great liberties and freedoms that all the previous generations have had.
-- Allen West -
LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Im never looking at life in terms of legacy.
-- Andrew Forrest -
I'm expected to do what's right; I want to leave a legacy of positivity behind.
-- Angie Stone -
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
-- Ansel Adams -
When I'm asked about legacy, I say it's too early to talk about legacy.
-- Arlen Specter -
One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.
-- Armand Hammer -
I have a great legacy, tarnished somewhat by the move
-- Art Modell -
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.
-- Arthur Wing Pinero -
What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?
-- August Wilson -
One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves.
-- Barack Obama -
Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.
-- Berry Gordy -
The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.
-- Bertrand Russell -
A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.
-- Bill Courtney -
Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
-- Bill Hybels -
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
-- Billy Graham -
Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup -
Few people on earth know Peter Drucker and his work better than Bruce Rosenstein. This is a welcome, unique and very personal addition to Drucker's incomparable legacy.
-- Bob Buford -
Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined.
-- Bob Iger -
With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.
-- Bonnie Raitt -
I'm really excited to be a part of it and sharing the legacy, any documentary I look up at the sky and Kevin Burns did and Bryan did and showed me again you know the history that's in this character and you know.
-- Brandon Routh -
It was a great mantel to be able to take on really, an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it, because I just saw the final product yesterday as well, is really amazing to be part of something like this.
-- Brandon Routh -
I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.
-- Bret Easton Ellis -
I'm here to say my legacy in The Octogon is over ... I re-signed last night with @WWE.
-- Brock Lesnar -
The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.
-- Cat Stevens -
The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just an onlooker. In each case, history entails the uncomfortable presence of earlier unresolved roles.
-- Charles S. Maier -
It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.
-- Christine Gregoire -
We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.
-- Christine Gregoire -
We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.
-- Christine Gregoire -
How can we create a cultural legacy of happiness? Let other people matter.
-- Christopher Peterson -
Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.
-- Chubby Checker -
When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.
-- Clarence Day -
A legacy is not about what you did while you were there it is what happens when you are gone
-- Darrell Waltrip -
I've always said your legacy is what you leave behind you.
-- Darrell Waltrip -
Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.
-- Dave Ramsey -
Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.
-- David Berlinski -
Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.
-- David Frum -
I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy
-- Daymond John -
The best legacy we leave is not for our children but in our children.
-- Deborah Roberts -
You know, when companies who have made a commitment and have legacy costs and all of a sudden want to walk away from that commitment and lay it on the federal government, that's a problem. It's a fiscal problem for us.
-- Dennis Hastert -
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
-- Desiderius Erasmus -
Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.
-- Diane Watson -
Everyone leaves a legacy, whether they want to or not. The question is, “What kind of legacy will you leave?
-- Dillon Burroughs -
I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.
-- Donnie Yen -
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.
-- Doris Lessing -
I think of the Kennedy family and I think of their faith... Along came John F. Kennedy and a part of his legacy is that... he didn't just break the Catholic barrier, he crushed it.
-- Doug Wead -
You are remembered for the rules you break.
-- Douglas MacArthur -
When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
-- Duke of Wellington -
The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.
-- Eddie Van Halen -
Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was especially pernicious: the demonizing of state attempts to ensure honest elections.
-- Edwin Meese -
Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.
-- Ellen G. White -
Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.
-- Eric Alterman -
It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.
-- Eric Burdon -
Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.
-- Eric L. Haney -
I can't go back and change the hands of time but what I can do is create a new legacy.
-- Eric Thomas -
This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen -
We’re damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet.
-- Evanna Lynch -
In my belief, a harvest is also a legacy, for very often what you reap is, in the way of small miracles, more than you consciously know you have sown.
-- Faith Baldwin -
We Unitarian Universalists have inherited a magnificent theological legacy. In a sweeping answer to creeds that divide the human family, Unitarianism proclaims that we spring from a common source; Universalism, that we share a common destiny.
-- Forrest Church -
Recognize your highest calling as early in life as possible. Proactively and creatively persist, day in and day out. Leave an enduring legacy.
-- Frank McKinney -
The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]
-- Freeman Dyson -
I can live my legacy or just have led a busy life.
-- Gary W. Goldstein -
Obviously we're celebrating a 36-year legacy on ABC and the end of an era, but we're also celebrating the start of a new era with this great property on ESPN. It's a bit of mixed emotions.
-- George Bodenheimer -
I don't like dynasty and legacy. But I think there's a period in the U.S. history where Bushes have been in the forefront.
-- George H. W. Bush -
Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.
-- George Voinovich -
Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion.
-- Hank Green -
So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.
-- Herbie Hancock -
Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide
-- Hope Edelman -
The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.
-- Hun Sen -
A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.
-- Ivan Albright -
I don't need to tell you that, what determines a man's legacy is often what isn't seen.
-- J. Edgar Hoover -
We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like virtually every public construct, is a legacy of a primordial and tribal mentality.
-- Jamake Highwater -
When we die our entire legacy is simply the added together strengths of all the connections we make with others. This is the ghost of ourselves we leave behind. This is showing up.
-- James Altucher -
My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy.
-- Jan Brewer -
This dress exacerbates the genetic betrayal that is my legacy.
-- Janeane Garofalo -
I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.
-- Janet Jackson -
Nas is one of the Greatest Ever. Never has and never will need a ghostwriter. That man’s pen and legacy is without question.
-- Jay Electronica -
Your choice to believe and keep covenants will leave a rich legacy of faith for those who follow you.
-- Jean A. Stevens -
We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.
-- Jennifer Granholm -
Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.
-- Jim Costa -
If he's chasing the full restoration of his legacy, he's chasing something that he really can't get.
-- Jim Lampley -
Our legacy is how we spend our time and who we spend it with.
-- Jim Stengel -
I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through.
-- Joel Parkinson -
Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way youd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.
-- John Collison -
I feel like there are messages. I feel like there are angels. I feel that there is a legacy and an energy. And I feel that it's possible to tap into that.
-- John Zorn -
I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.
-- Johnny Winter -
The best legacy you could leave is not some building that is names after you or a piece of jewelry but rather a world that has been impacted and touched by your presence, your joy, and your positive actions.
-- Jon Gordon
