Quotes About Legacy

Whenever we were on the road when I was younger, I remember my father pointing out the trucks that had 'Mack' on them.

You can't have the Allman Brothers without Butch Trucks and Gregg Allman. Those are just irreplaceable spirits.

My true gods are my parents. I am what I am because of them.

Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.

You have to stay true to your heritage; that's what your brand is about.

I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a true artist, a true talent, who never talked down to people.

I'm a true believer in, people only remember you for your last fight.

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

Marco Polo has been kind of buried under this cloud of rather banal historical dust, when the true story is so much more exciting.

When people hear the name 'Marco Polo,' they tend to think of a map or explorer. Very few people know the true story of Marco Polo, and it's so much more compelling and exciting than the mythology.

The Moodies is a responsibility to deliver the goods every night onstage and to do it sincerely; otherwise, it doesn't work. You've got the three guys left in the Moodies that really want to do it onstage, so I think we're truer to the old records now than we ever were.

In 'Ozark,' the truism that we are not as likely to do as well as our parents did in the past is front and center.

I am truly blessed to have been a part of the MTV family for so long.

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

Seventy is beautiful for me. I am truly, at last, an elder.

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.

I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.