Quotes About Legacy

The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.

There is an unrealistic pressure to perform like Kamal Haasan, and it's unnatural, because he's been in the industry for so many years, I don't even take the comparisons seriously.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

For anyone who has ever asked why the U.S. needs to address the issue of reparations for its history of slavery, Donald Trump is why. He is the living embodiment of America's unresolved issues.

The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.

I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way!

Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.

Shimon Peres was the greatest living example of an unshakable belief in the pursuit of peace against all odds.

One of the reasons I like to teach is that I like to pass things on. That's an unspoken law of show business.

Shaquille O'Neal was probably my favorite athlete growing up. I loved how dominant and unstoppable he was, but also his charisma off the court. He was someone I gravitated toward.

To the nameless and unsung heroes of our freedom struggle, we offer our humble tribute. Their life-blood nourishes the body of independent India.

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

I think pressure exists in a situation only when you are unsure of your talent and people are expecting a lot from you due to your lineage.

When you run a company, you want to hand it off in better shape than you found it. In the same way, just as we shouldn't leave our children or grandchildren with mountains of national debt and unsustainable entitlement programs, we shouldn't leave them with the economic and environmental costs of climate change.

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.'

I will remain on the throne until I fall off.

My calling is to help people, to teach people, to share with people, until I die. I can never stop doing that. I can't, and I don't want to.

I don't want to leave this planet until I achieve everything that I was put here to do.

Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.

Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.

My dad was a loyal congressman until his death. The Congress didn't respect him after his death and filed cases against me.

I will keep painting until I die.

It takes a long time for a country to build a strong base in science, but only a short time to destroy it. Germany was a sad example. It was a world leader in the sciences for more than a century, until its science base was demolished during the Nazi era, and the country ceded its position to the United States.