Quotes About Legacy

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it's being run by idiots.

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

We've got to help our community out. We've got to help Baltimore out, because it's a lot of things that have been handed down in our society that we're dealing with.

Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven.

We shared our father with the world.

I feel so guilty about the state of young people today. And I say that because our generation fought for everything. We fought to sit down at a counter, to sit on a bus. They were left with nothing to fight for.

Who are we to think that our generation is going to be the first generation to benefit from all the sacrifices that others have made without giving some modern-day equivalent of our own lives, fortunes, and sacred honor?

I don't think Pele was the ultimate hero for our generation, he is the ultimate hero of every generation of Brazilians.

You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.

We have to let the younger generations take our music - and approach it the way they want - but just teach them where it all comes from.

People can forget your music but we are more surprised than happy to see that no one has forgotten our music.

Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us.

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.

Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music can influence anybody. I've heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.

Our story is in two halves, as the band's career up to Freddie's death was 20 years, and 20 years later, our music is as popular as it was then. It's a sort of everlasting... income.

A lot of young people have been raised on our music, or rather had it forced upon them by their parents.

We've influenced other artists, and when younger generations become fans of those artists and hear about us, they discover our music too.

It's really a blessing that our music can reach across generations.