Quotes About Legacy

My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.

I used to say, if Jim were alive today he'd never be clean and sober but I'm changing that answer because Eminem - angry, creative, just like Jim; a real talent - and Clapton, of course. It's a different time so he would have learned something, I think, but I don't protect what he did.

I don't mind talking about dad and stuff, because that's part of my life, you know? For me to pretend to be like him, and do the same things he used to do is over. I can see past it now. It took me thirty-eight years and sobriety to realize who Jason Bonham is.

My dad was a soccer player. He didn't know anything about basketball - nothing.

My dad had a soccer school that he used to run, the Mark Chamberlain Soccer Academy, I used to go to that for two years until the age of seven.

I want to know I made women's soccer better than it was when I came into it.

My dad played for... the Villanueva de la Serena, so I guess that's why I play basketball instead of soccer.

For me, David Beckham will always be a legend... everything David represents for soccer, as an example to children, is reserved for very few people.

I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.

Soccer runs in my blood.

I think - I hope - that we're going to be able to build something here with U.S. Soccer, where it's not just going to be about one lost match or one lost cycle or one lost team. It's going to be about an entire country rallying around an entire sport in a way that lasts.

Maradona doesn't play soccer anymore, he coaches it. He needs to remember that.

Everyone throughout the soccer world knows the Cosmos name and the legacy of the players that played for this team previously. They helped establish soccer in America and I'm honored to follow in their footsteps.

Argentina is a powerhouse in soccer.

It's clear to me that millions of young people understand and value my father's legacy of social change through nonviolence.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.

Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

Elijah E. Cummings leaves behind an invaluable legacy as a congressman for Baltimore for more than two decades and as a champion for social justice. His passing is a call to cherish the many gifts he imparted on all those fortunate to know him, but it's also a reminder of a painful reality facing people of color: shorter life expectancy.

For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.

I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.

It was tough to get to where I am, to get the following that I do have on social media and all the fans out there, which I greatly appreciate, but I would love to have a template so the next girl who grows up doesn't have to go through a lot of the hardships that we faced in our generation.

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.