Quotes About Legacy

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.

He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible.

Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)

My only regret is not having dreamed more. I got my life as a gift. I'll give it up without an overdraft.

I was given my life, some two and a half billion seconds: I did some reckoning, and I decided to do something with those seconds so that I might make a difference.

When Israel was weak, I worked to make her fierce. But once she was strong, I gave my life's efforts to peace.

more. I got my life as a gift. I'll give it up without an overdraft. Every once in a while, someone will ask me to look back on my career and identify the achievement in my life of which I am proudest. I respond by telling them the story of a great painter, who was once approached by an admirer of his art. "Which

The next time a woman of whatever color, or a dark-skinned person of whatever sex aspires to be president, the way should be a little smoother because I helped pave it

Lincoln didn't just end slavery. King didn't just dream segregation away. Parks didn't just get tired one day. It is often the unrecognized actions of previous generations that push a society to eventually embrace mantras such as hope, equality, change, and other ideals, which transform the political landscape. Chisholm's actions remind us that there are hundreds of forgotten foot soldiers in history that helped to bring these watershed moments to fruition. For

I want to be remembered as a woman … who dared to be a catalyst of change.

All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...

Shirley Temple Black

Oh, how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!

Purpose: A lifetime goal is called a purpose. To identify your purpose, ask yourself "If my age was a hundred today and I looked back at my life, what is it that I want to say is my accomplishment?" The answer is your purpose.

Purpose: A lifetime goal is called a purpose. To identify your purpose, ask yourself "If my age was a hundred today and I looked back at my life, what is it that I want to say is my accomplishment?" The answer is your purpose. Mission: A mission is an action that leads a person to a purpose through a philosophy.

It's the damnedest thing: The dead abandon you; then, with the passage of time, you abandon the dead.

Everyone has a different finger print.... Not to distinguish onself , but to give us an equal opportunity to leave a mark on the world.

Fame is like walkin on the Beach.... every step, whether right or wrong, leaves its imprint.

Make every moment of your life worth dying for.

Grief is not a record of what has been lost but of who has been loved. In the end, we weep not only for the death of someone but for the startling question that faces us: what shall we do with the love we have for the deceased? Where will we put it?

We proceed out of history into history again.

But John Marshal, having four sons and a fruitful wife, considered the youngest of his sons of far less value than a strong castle.