Quotes About Legacy

Racist infrastructure has damaged districts like mine for generations.

It's been ingrained in me, from my parents and others, this idea of making a difference in the world.

When you do something all of your life, it's still ingrained in you.

We inherit the family we're born into and create the family we need.

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble.

The No. 9, a team's centre forward, is a number that means a lot and, God willing, I hope to inherit it some day.

I did not inherit a single dime from my father.

I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway.

I don't think I should ask my kids to inherit my business, because they can't start where I did: I was from the street. I'm a very different make of person. I've been a fighter all my life.

My father used to say I would inherit his house but not his seat.

I actually have grandkids. I'm at that age. And with all the things that go on in our country, I sometimes wonder what sort of world they're going to inherit?

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

I've decided with the full agreement of my wife Sylvia Bongo Ondimba and my children that my share of the inheritance will be shared with all Gabonese youth because in my eyes, we are all heirs of Omar Bongo Ondimba.

As a child, my mother would read to me late into the night. I didn't enjoy it at the time but she always used to say that the inheritance she was going to leave us was a good education.

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.

Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy.

I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'

At Knopf, everything is inherited.

I've always been proud that I come from people who were activists, who have this indomitable spirit. I am proud to have inherited the spirit of resistance and revolution.

I often say that I inherited the family's recessive gene for adult-onset political activism.

My mother reveres artists, and my sister and I have inherited her love of art and the stories about its creation.