Quotes About Legacy

I always cherish my ancestors, my grandpa, great-grandpa, what they did for us, especially my dad who moved from Bosnia. He started a new life in Slovenia so basically I grew up there.

I'm very proud of New Order and Joy Division, that heritage of songs.

New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division.

Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.

Jerry Orbach was the first person to take me to the Friars Club. It's a beautiful building, and you walk into these halls of comedic history and meet these old cats who could tell you a million stories about how things went down in New York City.

I've probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in New York City with the possible exception of Mike Bloomberg, who was there for 12 years.

Chicago is like a New York City. It's one of the those older cities. It really means something to fight there.

New York City belongs to the people that was here and made New York City what it is.

I don't want my son to have to collect a bunch of 'New York Times' articles to see what I was like.

Everyone was a footballer in my family. My grandfather Wilf played for Newcastle and my cousins play. It's in the blood.

I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.

When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.

I'm so concerned with morgues and libraries of the newspapers.

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.

I want to be the next legend.

Legacy is not what I did for myself. It's what I'm doing for the next generation.

We can't expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation.

Encouraging the next generation is really where my heart is.

Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

The only legacy I seek is the one that any grandparent seeks - that is, to hand off our nation... our fields and our farms to the next generation in better shape than we found it.

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

My parents didn't have the opportunities they would have liked, but they didn't complain about that because they thought they were part of a society where the next generation would have those opportunities.

It's very important to inspire the next generation.