Quotes About Legacy

When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work.

In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.

I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will not be forgotten by those who benefit from our trying to make a difference. Yet to try to insure we will not be forgotten too often results in desperate manipulative strategies that are doomed to fail.

My role is more like a chairman and founder. I am used to overseeing the company's heritage and our strategy.

Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy.

My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry and Stray Cats.

I'm very proud of being a Backstreet Boy, so why stray too far from the mold?

I definitely have my dad's competitive streak in me.

I'm proud of what I've done. I look at it and I try to stay humble and do what I've got to do, but I think people forget, I'm the first guy to beat the win streak at Nova Uniao with Johnny Eduardo. He had an 11-fight win streak and I beat him, and people say, 'That's nothing.'

You know, the Monaco Grand Prix is the grandfather of all street races.

You stop anybody on any street, around the world, and they know who Eric Clapton is. They don't know who I am!

Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.

I want to have a street named 'Swae Lee.' It doesn't need to be a busy street.

My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today's street obsession with bling, cars or cribs.

The streets made me. They stay at me. There's nothing that's gonna take away from my legacy. I'm sorry. It is what it is. I'm dying this way. With the crown on my head, nobody can take nothing away from me. It is what it is. I am who I am. Bottom line.

I'm not in it for fame. I've been famous in the streets already.

I see myself as the godfather of the streets.

Harlem's streets lead backward, into history, straight to a work such as 'This Was Harlem.'

The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime.

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

He saved me from being somebody else. I could have been prime minister, I could have been a prostitute on the streets, but I am what I am and Bob has a lot to do with that.

I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for five generations. I can walk the streets there and point out my father's childhood home, the houses my grandfather built, the farm where my great-great-uncle worked after he emigrated from England in the 1880s.