The Legacy Quotes

When I think of a legacy, I think of the legacy of being a mom.

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.

Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.

The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch.

Your choice to believe and keep covenants will leave a rich legacy of faith for those who follow you.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through.

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

Thankful Madiba for your legacy and your example. You"ll always stay with us.

The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the 21st century. It's just as simple as that.

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance.

Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize...

Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

Mumbai Indians will strive to build on our proud legacy of giving youngsters a platform to showcase their talent and realise their true potential.

I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

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.

My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and so. And the legacy of the Kerouac school.

I always want to teach things that help people with their personal lives, their financial lives and their legacies, so this was a huge thing for me.

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.

Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations.

All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.

LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.

Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal.

Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

The best legacy we leave is not for our children but in our children.

The only legacy I want is to be thought of as a winner.

My story, or my life or my legacy can hopefully show [fans] that once you’re down, that doesn’t mean you’re down forever. You never let up.

I know how big Blink are and I know the legacy with it and everything, but Angels & Airwaves, to my heart and to the people who like it, this is the release of my life.

True creative cities produce the legacy of an idea that does what funding cannot do: to foster.

If you have an effect that nobody can replicate, then your phenomenon fades away. So if you want to to have a legacy, then you jolly well better have an effect that replicates.

In a way players at the top should try to promote the game in their own countries as that is the legacy that makes you feel proud. If you have not done that you have failed as a sportsperson.

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.

Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.

The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore

Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.