Quotes About Legacy

I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.

My mother made countless sacrifices so that her children - and all children - could grow up in a better nation and world.

Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.

The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune.

I don't know if it's a legacy, but I love it. In my mind and other people's minds, they know I was the first to stylize the national anthem.

Every band wants to be have a song that is that big, that will pretty much live on forever. I don't know too many new bands that will have a 'Free Bird' that will be around 30 years later. It's become a national anthem of sorts.

When I talk about a successful program, define that. It's not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.

It's hard to be as good as Ronaldinho and Ronaldo were, but we're going to do our best, both myself and Philippe Coutinho, to get close to them and be the best players we can be for the Brazilian national team.

Toni Kroos leaving the German national team would hurt me very much.

I saw Claude Makelele play in the French national team but before when he played at a club I didn't watch him a lot.

I played for so long with the national team. It was great but it's time for the young guys to play.

Playing as captain of Juve and the national team, with 500 games for Juve and 100 for the national team, it gives you a different serenity.

Maradona has done a lot for his clubs, as Messi does, and for the Argentina national team.

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.

Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.

As you may know, I'm a native Texan. In fact I'm a fifth generation Texan.

I think I always knew I would be a writer some day, but it wasn't until I was grown and had children of my own that I turned to telling Native American stories.

Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

My car contained guns, bundles of cash I'd found hidden about the house, and boxes of vintage pornography. If I got pulled over and searched, I'd probably go to jail. If I had a wreck, money and porn would litter the interstate, mixed with my funeral suit, my grandfather's rifle, a shotgun, three hundred rounds of ammunition, the remnants of my father's ashes, and whatever was left of me.

With whatever time is left to you, play your part well — perfectly. Play it as you want to be remembered. No more can anyone ask of us or can we ask of ourselves.