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Quotes About Legacy

It's an old pirate tradition. Burial at C.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die.
~ Alastair Reynolds
I don't think the Rattlers are coming back," I said, remembering the bar in the Hall of History. The Rattlers had come and gone during the Fourth Occupation, about nine million years ago, and nothing had been heard of them since.
~ Alastair Reynolds
The persona of 'The Wonder Years' is something that's going to be with me forever. And I'm happy for that. It's nothing that I'd ever shy away from, and it makes me feel so good that it's something people still remember and talk about it and think of it so fondly.
~ Fred Savage
The time to think about personal achievement is at the end of your career.
~ James Anderson
I want people to know me through the movies I do. I want to be judged on that. If you start becoming famous for your personal life, that's when your career goes away.
~ Megan Fox
Your personal life is something that's gonna last forever, and your career in stage, film, television, whatever, is not necessarily going to do that, so to keep the two separate's a very good thing.
~ Lucy Griffiths
My father had an amazing legacy, and so does my mother. I wanted to be able to have both names there. In my personal life, it's Evan Naess. In my career life, it's Evan Ross.
~ Evan Ross
On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of what I've done or what I've gone on to achieve in my career.
~ Lionel Messi
We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
~ Edgar Ramirez
My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, personal thing.
~ Leila Aboulela
We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.
~ Chester Bennington
People always ask what's it like to grow up as a Kennedy. It's a family. It's big, it's large, it's amazing. You've got strong personalities with strong opinions. And we'll come out differently on some of those opinions.
~ Joe Kennedy III
Martin Luther would be the headliner of any 'dead-or-alive dinner party' I would ever throw. He is, quite simply, one of the most fascinating brains and compelling personalities in history.
~ Ben Sasse
A.K. Hangal has worked with so many Bollywood personalities. In fact, during his good times he worked with A-listers of the industry and it was so disappointing to see none of them turned up for his funeral.
~ Raza Murad
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
~ Haile Selassie
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.
~ John Hodgman
I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone.
~ Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.
~ Billy Graham
Raul Reyes was a good revolutionary. I knew him personally.
~ Hugo Chavez
I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.
~ Carroll O'Connor
Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.
~ Muddy Waters
'Blues Clues' has been incredibly good to me, and I've been working so hard on it for so long that I take it very personally. I wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize what so many kids love. So there's a lot of responsibility there.
~ Steve Burns
We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.
~ John Pearson