The Legacy Quotes

Someone asked me what legacy I wanted to leave and all my answers were so long that I even bored him. I said I don't care. Why should I? I will die someday. So if you like, remember me.

Certainly it is important to work hard for your children, but if the only legacy you can give them is money it is a poor legacy indeed.

Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

I can't go back and change the hands of time but what I can do is create a new legacy.

If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.

One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

I love the book legacy of lies it amazing and is fun to read over and over again

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world.

Theodore Roosevelt crafted a masterpiece of service. He served people in every aspect of his life. His legacy was transformational, encompassing his family, his nation and the world.

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.

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.

I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.

Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

The situation is worse than it has ever been before. This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton - death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.

The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.

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.

It leaves a good legacy to have five records.

I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump aboard a trend.

ECW's legacy will be as the company who took all the mistfits that nobody else wanted, and created stars.

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.

All our pleasures and possessions are consigned to oblivion, but the legacy we leave for Christ will endure forever.

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.

The lasting legacy of the Cooter Smash is that I'm the first to know when it's going to rain. That's right. I both sing and predict the weather with my hoo hoo.

His [Gough Whitlam's] effect on the geo-cultural-political map of Australia is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in you get a wealth of Gough's legacy.

Does Obama really want his legacy to be, ‘The president who was an even bigger fool than Neville Chamberlain’?

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.

I want to demystify what it means to leave a legacy for young people.

I am from the inner city, the ghetto. If I can use my platform to carry on a legacy and talk about something that's real, I have to do that, period.

As a younger person I think I thought of myself as a Tony [from The Best Man], struggling with the legacy of my famous parents.

Whether you like it or not, you will leave a leadership legacy.

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.

The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.

I want to be respected as a writer and, like I said, I was really sick of people saying I was a two dimensional character. I want more to my legacy, I guess.

One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.

When the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.

People will be talking about the [Barack] Obama legacy for decades, and I wanted to include my voice in the analysis of this presidency.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.

I would pray that I'd leave a legacy of faith, trust and joy. For the joy of the Lord has been my strength and song, and I praise Him.

Let us not only remember the past and its required sacrifice, let us also remember that we are responsible to build a legacy for the generations which follow us.

Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.

I grew up on 'Lawrence' and 'Zhivago'. A legacy with not one but multiple timeless classics.

This Epistle, is therefore a legacy to the Christians of all ages.