Quotes About Legacy

It's very important that people know that I really enjoy everything that has happened to me. And I tell my kids... you're not going to be the tallest, fastest, prettiest, the best track runner, but you can be the nicest human being that someone has ever met in their life. And I just want to leave that legacy that being nice is a true treasure.

My parents weren't very good at keeping things, which is why I treasure my own sons' work so much now - I don't want to lose anything.

Aretha Franklin is and will always be a national treasure.

Lake Tahoe is a California treasure and we must do everything we can to protect it for future generations.

I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.

The best part is that I'm still here and, because the end is in sight, I treasure it all more.

You get older, and people start passing away. And so if you're lucky - my mom died very young, for instance, and I have friends who died very young - but the point being that, I think if you're awake, you know you're going to pass on. And that the real treasure in life is the long term - relationships that you really value.

I have my granddad's record collection, which I treasure, and my father's - Rolling Stones to Sidney Bechet.

Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a more beautiful city, some race is spending itself that a lower and more barbarous world may inherit its stored treasure house.

It's important to celebrate the monogram. It's the DNA of Vuitton. I think - I hope - there is an interest in the philosophy and culture of the Vuitton name. It's quite coherent and intellectual, and the products are great. These are things you will want to pass on - things you treasure.

I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old.

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

For missionary entrepreneurs, the dream outcome is to build an 'Internet treasure' - a brand that defines a generation, proves that we are better than our parents, and becomes something we couldn't live without.

The United States ended the space shuttle program in 2011, after the ISS was complete. We gave up a national treasure forever.

The creative treasure of Israel's artists and writers will survive forever.

The national treasure that is Diana Ross is a dim light compared with who she is as a mother. My mom paved the way not only for my career but also for who I am as a human being.

My experience on 'Grey's Anatomy' is something that I will treasure for the rest of my life.

The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them.

When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

When you don't do something anymore, all of a sudden everyone treasures it.

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

Marley Coffee is dedicated to my father's dream to return to the farmlands, to offer our family treasures to the world.

I hope films will be somehow preserved and seen by as many people as possible in the future. There are endless treasures for audiences to discover, if only we can keep them from disappearing.

To me, those are the greatest treasures - the personal letters between my parents.