Quotes About Legacy

There are a lot of people - and time does this - who are going to be severely embarrassed for their bias and intolerance. And they're going to have to live with that; that's going to be their legacy. I refuse to have that as part of my legacy.

There were patterns in my family that had to be broken, and I refused to live my life the way certain members of my family had.

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar.

I wanted Puma to regain strength with the existing logo rather than try to get rid of the past.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

I don't want to make a mistake that would hurt the cause of Christ late in my life, so I'm going to do everything I can to bring many people to Christ. If he can use me in that regard through 'Family Talk,' that will be my greatest legacy.

It's a matriarchal family, the Carters. A.P. was the original head of the Carter family, but the women were always strong. There were no questions asked in that regard; you had better be strong.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.

When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard.

I believe Sam Peckinpah is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and I hold him in high regard.

I got into an argument with someone because I said I think 2Pac will be regarded as a great poet. They said he was just a punk gangster. People said the same thing about Francois Villon, and he's now considered the best French Romantic poet of all time.

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

When you think about it, what's the difference between Bobby Knight and Vince Lombardi? Why is one guy a god, and the other guy is regarded as a crazy man?

Blair - except at the edges - was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as something that had to be taken on board while at the same time seeking to retain as much as possible of the Labour legacy, or 'Labour values,' as he would put it.

Klitschko was the reigning champion for a decade and regarded by many as one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. I'm never going to face another opponent with that legacy.

I sat in the back of the broadcast booth for ages watching my dad do his job. And not just watching how he did his job, but how he interacted with people and how he regarded his job.

I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

It's always cool when you get immortalized on records. I am just happy that I have gotten to the level where rappers who can actually rap say my name in records, regardless if it's a diss or not.

With me, baseball will never grow old. In my own estimation, it may not have improved so much as many believe, but regardless of everything, it is the same good old game. If I have contributed to its success, I do not refer to this in the sense of boasting. I had to or fall out of the ranks.